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Thank you for the outside, see you on the inside
2021 Permanent Commission Original Composition Duration: 8:32 mins Recorded and mastered at the Van Gogh House, 87 Hackford Road, London Instruments: Violin, Vocal Recordings, MIDI Keyboard, Pocket Operator Tonic Drum Synth |
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Thank you for the outside, see you on the inside is an audio composition and graphic score made by Lilian Nejatpour during her time and artist residency at the Van Gogh House in August 2021.
Nejatpour recorded the instruments in the Van Gogh House front parlour where Van Gogh's sister, Anna, allegedly played the piano. During Nejatpour's stay, the artist collected field recordings of Bashment tracks seeping through the house's walls. The composition is a rich tapestry of electronic textures and motifs, which uses the violin as a drawing apparatus. Taking influence from 18th-century classical music that Van Gogh would have listened to during his stay in London—to the contemporary snapshot of dense car subwoofer breakbeats moving through the streets of Hackford and Brixton Road. Nejatpour acts as a conduit, arranging and compiling these complicated ecologies and histories of sound as fleeting phono artefacts. In homage to Eugenie Loyer, who is described as the "the mistress of music" in the 1881 census, her mother's salon (Ursula Loyer) becomes the editing suite where Nejatpour masters the final track. The heavy weather cycles become personal terrains of the artist's experience reflected in this site-specific, sonic landscape.
Nejatpour recorded the instruments in the Van Gogh House front parlour where Van Gogh's sister, Anna, allegedly played the piano. During Nejatpour's stay, the artist collected field recordings of Bashment tracks seeping through the house's walls. The composition is a rich tapestry of electronic textures and motifs, which uses the violin as a drawing apparatus. Taking influence from 18th-century classical music that Van Gogh would have listened to during his stay in London—to the contemporary snapshot of dense car subwoofer breakbeats moving through the streets of Hackford and Brixton Road. Nejatpour acts as a conduit, arranging and compiling these complicated ecologies and histories of sound as fleeting phono artefacts. In homage to Eugenie Loyer, who is described as the "the mistress of music" in the 1881 census, her mother's salon (Ursula Loyer) becomes the editing suite where Nejatpour masters the final track. The heavy weather cycles become personal terrains of the artist's experience reflected in this site-specific, sonic landscape.
The Van Gogh House Front Parlour
© Lilian Nejatpour 2025