Listen Closely
October 2014
Alongside the album release, ANEZ built a 3-metre tall A-frame paper sculpture — inspired by the form of the Megyeri bridge in Hungary but entirely its own object. Aluminium rods spike outward from its front and sides, each acting as a touch-sensitive conductor connected to a sampler loaded with song material. Anesz performed by touching the rods, turning the sculpture into a playable instrument and collapsing the roles of artwork, stage set and musical interface into one.
The installation was also presented at MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest). ANEZ were also asked to perform at the opening event of A túlélő árnyéka – Az El Kazovszkij-élet/mű at the Magyar Nemzeti Galéria — a major posthumous retrospective running November 2015 to February 2016. After the performance, the audience was invited to try the instrument themselves.
A Listen Closely Remixes release followed in 2015.
