Tisha Mukarji's performance Metronome series #2 (2009) makes reference to and is a variation of Gyorgi Ligeti's Poeme Syphonique, a work which used a hundred metronomes set to different tempos. For a 12-minute performance the metronomes will be substituted for one hundred people who will be "beating" time with their hand. Twenty groups of five people will each have a tempo that they will attempt to follow. For example one group will beat time at adagio which is 45 beats per minute, another group will be at 85 beats per minute, etc. It is a silent commentary on several different aspects of musical performance and synchronisation. Not only do the "time keepers" have to be synchronised but the substitution of metronomes for people is intended to display the primary feature of music which is gesture, although in this case the gestures don't produce any music but an illusion of time.
Date: September 25, 19.00, entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts MSK, Ghent