F.14 & Metacolors

Vinko Globokar's F.14 consists of a rhythmic pattern (to be played on any part of the body) which leads to the final gesture of the piece, the suicide. Pauline Oliveros' Metacolors, originally written for musicians with synaesthesia, is an invitation to play colours as emotions, or emotions as colours.

In this fragment I collected 81 video performances of ?Corporel, mainly available on YouTube. Then I cut the videos according to the beginning of F.14 and puzzled them in the frame. Finally, I practised Oliveros' meditation and edited each video according to her list of "emotion-colour" pairings (see here on the side). In some cases it was easy to associate the video with a particular emotion (and therefore a particular colour). In other cases, it was not possible to distinguish one emotion from another, so I decided to leave the videos in their original colours or in black and white.