Hidden Noise

A series of concerts with new music for the pipe organ, imagined, curated and performed by Cory Arcangel & Hampus Lindwall




Hidden Noise is a series of organ concerts with the goal of generating new repertoire for the pipe organ. The title is borrowed from Marcel Duchamp’s piece with the same name, on which he collaborated with his friend Walter Arensberg and asked him to insert a secret object inside a ball of string which Duchamp then clamped shut between two screwed metal plates. When shaked, the hidden object rattles, and makes a secret noise ;-)

Since 2018, we have comissioned music from no less than 12 artists and world premiered around 20 pieces.


Volume. 4
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
2024


In Terms and Conditions we highlighted our own compositions as part of a larger organ night that included performances by Silvan Meshke, Gamut Inc. and Markus Hinz, who had generously of invited us. The event was co-organized by the Julia Stoschek Collection. Cory premiered a full scale concert version of Chord Memory whearas Hampus played multiple works from the last couple of years.

Fun fact:  Hampus and Cory spent the off day recording, and these records will make their way into the world in 2025! 

SATURDAY, 20 JANUARY 2024, 9:15 P.M.
St. Antonius Kirche
Luegallee 61, 40545 Düsseldorf
Organist: Hampus Lindwall (SE)

Cory Arcangel, Chord Memory, 2021-2023  
Hampus Lindwall, A Bruit Secret, 2023
Hampus Lindwall, AFK, 2022
Hampus Lindwall, Brace for Impact, 2019


Volume. 3
REMIND ME TOMORROW
2021


So this time we got displaced again, but not by the Pope, by Covid-19! And we ended up in our iPhones.... However, this turned out to become a small performance by itself, with us live presentations by texting!

Fun fact: We obviously have the best documentation from this event, since it’s the very video from the performance!  

THURSDAY, 8 APRIL 2021, 8:00 P.M.
https://issueprojectroom.org/
Organists: Nils Henrik Asheim (NO), Hampus Lindwall (SE) & Joy-Leilani Garbutt (US).

Cory Arcangel, Chord Memory, 2021
Stine Janvin, Hakken, 2021
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (EVOL), The Chord Life (for Tom Johnson), 2021
Hampus Lindwall, Lost & Found, 2020
Seth Price, My Composition, 2005
Akira Sileas, Composition for Two Organs, 2021. 


Volume. 2
THEY TOLD ME THERE WOULD BE TEA
2019


Following our concert in Paris, Helen Nisbet invited us to do something similar at Art Night London 2019. This time we had the possibility to invite eight artists to concieve new works for the organ. Some artists had already worked with the organ before, but we also had new crazy stuff like Haroon Mirza who built a special robot to play the keys!!

Fun fact: Cory made his debute performance as an organist, playing Charlemagne Palestine’s piece, giving Hampus a well needed break during the 4 hours performance!

SATURDAY, 22 JUNE 2019, 8:00 P.M.
St Mary's Church, Walthamstow.
Organists: Hampus Lindwall (SE), Cory Arcangel (USA)

Cory Arcangel, Scrubs, 2019
Ellen Arkbro, Chordalities, 2019
Pierre Bismuth, Wall Paper Scores (after William Morris), 2019 
Kara-Lis Coverdale, Soul of Numbers, 2019
Tom Crawford, A Drift - to accompany organ, 2019
Haley Fohr aka Circuit des Yeux, Breathing Machine, 2019
Hampus Lindwall, Light Fandango, 2019
Hanne Lippard, Neinternet, 2019
Haroon Mirza, Excerpt from Waning Gibbous, Stone circle, 2019
Charlemagne Palestine, Jamaica Heinekens in Walthamstow - Brooklyn (for Willy Morris “I want to get mumno jumbo out of the world” ), 1999 / 2019



Volume. 1
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
2018



Organized with the help of Thaddeus Ropac during FIAC 2018, this first round of organ nights came out around the world premiere of Alle Fugler, a piece Cory wrote for Hampus. To complete the program, Hampus made an organ arrangement of Sweet 16, as well as performed pieces by Marcel Duchamp & Phill Niblock.

Fun fact: This concert was supposed to be held in Notre-Dame, but due to a last minute visit by the Pope it was displaced to a church near the Ropac gallery space. 

SUNDAY, 20 OCTOBER, 8:00 PM. 
Eglise Saint-Denys du Saint Sacrement
Organist: Hampus Lindwall (SE)

Cory Arcangel, Alle Fugler, 2018 (Commissioned by and dedicated to Hampus Lindwall)
Cory Arcangel, Sweet 16, 2006
Marcel Duchamp, Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires même, 1913
Phill Niblock, Nagro (Organ), 2007