From Kinga Bartis’s quietly captivating paintings to Madeleine Andersson’s nauseating footage of human brains, this year’s participants in Bergen select their favourite recent exhibitions
In drone and minimal music, the sonic conditions that develop in the middle of a piece, be it a recording, performance or composition, often come to define the work in a more pronounced manner than how the work begins or ends. This ‘middle’ region is inherently temporal, but because of the extended and sometimes marker-less durations one encounters in minimal music, it proves to be elusive – and thus one, while listening, often has a continuous sense of being inside of a potentially boundless sound.