Temper (Span Time)

(2025)

A piece featuring twelve vintage electronic metronomes.

They are all set to the slowest speed.

Some don’t keep time steadily, others emit a noticeably loud electrical hum.

None of them can be depended on for accuracy, each one functions idiosyncratically.

They are manipulated and mixed so that they no longer demarcate time but jumble it, disorder it, confuse it.

It’s clear that each one spans time singularly.



But collectively, a chaotic chorale emits.

Performed by Marla Hlady and Christof Migone at the Music Gallery, presented in collaboration with the Blackwood Gallery, on April 17, 2025.

Curated by Sara Constant and Karie Liao.

Photos of live performance by Henry Chan.

Other versions:

Temper (Length Wave) performed by Masha Kouznetsova and Ellen Moffat during the Water (Deshkan Ziibi) 12-hour event in the artLAB gallery on December 12, 2024.