Publication year 2022
Catalogue no. C.1877
Duration 24 minutes
(2020)
Publication year 2022
Catalogue no. C.1877
Duration 24 minutes
The Anatomical Songbook is a work that examines the body’s movements from a musical perspective. With a meticulous focus on individual joints and muscles, the work simultaneously poses the question of whether music should be categorized exclusively as an auditory phenomenon, i.e. something that must be heard. In Anatomical Songbook there are no instruments that play music, but instead body parts that show music.
The work consists of twelve songs, each based on a body part as a musical instrument. With a point of departure in the composer’s musical instructions, the body’s motor functions are experienced through the cinematic gestures as more or less abstract pictorial movements.
Anatomical Songbook has been developed for the Medical Museion in Copenhagen in a collaboration between the composer Jeppe Ernst, video artist Émile Sadria and singer/performer Jakob Bloch Jespersen.
Anatomical Songbook will be shown on 4 screens that are temporarily placed as an integral part of the Medical Museion’s permanent exhibitions. This creates a dialogue between the scientific focus of the exhibitions and the sensuous look of the body in the art films.
The work is published as a score that can be purchased both as a print version or downloaded as a PDF for DIY home printing (select the PDF option on checkout in the webshop).
In connection with an upcoming installation version of the work at the Medical Museion in Copenhagen, two special art editions of the score will be made available.
The first comes in a limited edition of 48, and includes the score and a poster of high resolution stills from the videos specially created for the work by Émile Sadria in collaboration with Jakob Bloch, for whom the Anatomical Songbook was composed. The score and poster fold out to the size of an A1 poster (594 × 841mm), and come presented in a low-height A4 cardboard box. Both the score and poster are signed and numbered by the composer.
A second, more exclusive edition of 12, includes the above mentioned score and poster, along with a pair of the underpants featured in the video, as well as the complete collection of 12 videos on a USB stick. As with the first edition, both the score and poster are signed and numbered by the composer and come presented in a low-height A4 cardboard box.
The limited edition sells for 480 Kr., the exclusive edition for 1200 Kr.
Sakramente (Natsange)
2018 • Jeppe Ernst
2-6 Instruments
33 minutes
1 female performer and 3 male performers
Præludium (Aftensange)
2019 • Jeppe Ernst
2-6 Instruments
22 minutes
2 female and 2 male musicians
Offertorium: Bøn
2017 • Jeppe Ernst
2-6 Instruments
3 male and 3 female performers
Offertorium: Behandling A, B, C
2017 • Jeppe Ernst
2-6 Instruments
24 minutes
Male and female performers
Monodi (Etude IX)
2017 • Jeppe Ernst
2-6 Instruments
6 minutes
Two performers
Etudes (Book II)
2016 • Jeppe Ernst
2-6 Instruments
24 minutes
Facial muscles
Mass for a Human Body
2016 • Jeppe Ernst
2-6 Instruments
25 minutes
Two male and two female performers
Nocturnes (for the human mind)
2019 • Jeppe Ernst
Solo
Sangbog
2017 • Jeppe Ernst
Solo
24 songs for the reader's imagination and body
Monument
2016 • Jeppe Ernst
Orchestra
14 minutes
Symphony orchestra, female voice, and video