In Resonance

There is a reference to the musical. One holds a music staff in ones hand such as hands touch an instrument, the hand gesture in one glance. Both materials write something down, they tell something, through their linear character and their intrinsic reference to sheet music, in a completely natural and unprocessed way. The softness of the material, the extreme point of stress on the matter in a given position. Getting a grip and feeling what the material has to say to me and how far it wants to go. Building up a crescendo in silence but holding it in a sforzando. They therefore fit together perfectly and are inextricably linked in the matter. They have an attraction, - the reverse movement - and want to return to each other. I want to bring them together, to harmonize. Something straight that makes something else curved. Something static that makes something else dynamic.

As a specialist in the restoration of historical pianos, Yannick Wijnants (°1985 Hasselt, Belgium) is increasingly exploring what the language of sound and tension can mean and represent.