White Time is a performative sound installation where artist Eitan Haviv employs long loops of magnetic tape—sourced, extracted, and recycled from audio cassettes. The tape, which originally moves within the cassette, is drawn out and set into motion on panels using a system of bearings. The tape is reconfigured into enchanted objects that can be perceived as painting, sculpture, or physical animation within the space.
Crafted with care and attention befitting the installation’s content, White Time captures sound as fleeting and elusive material, challenging our ability to grasp it in real-time. This characteristic creates a constant tension between the sonic event and its tangible existence.
The magnetic tape functions within the installation like a sequence of sonic DNA. Typically, it lies dormant and concealed within the cassette. In White Time, we witness the entire movement of the tape and can clearly connect the sonic element to its position on the tape. We can trace the journey of a sound element through space, allowing the eye to join the ear, becoming an integral part in the experience. In a sense, we can hear a line and visualize a sound. The sonic materials are taken from lost collections of cassettes that have been abandoned over the years, which have come into the artist’s possession. He processes and re-records these materials onto the tape. The resulting soundscape is nostalgic and personal, worn and frayed, acquiring new meanings through the ravages of time—an ode to the “useless.”
Eitan Haviv is a multidisciplinary artist working with sound, experimental music, sculpture, and installation. His works explore musical practices that include playing, composing, sound design, and movement, intertwining them with plastic arts and spatial ideas of sculpture and installation. Eitan plays, performs, and creates music using tape recorders, field recordings, analog instruments, and various mechanical mechanisms, some of which he develops and constructs himself. Since graduating from the New Music Department at Musrara school in Jerusalem, he has collaborated with numerous multidisciplinary artists, including Itamar Mendes-Flor, Amir Meir, Dov Or Ner, the Sala-Manca group, Dr. Yoni Niv, and Shira Marek.
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