Twenty Springs is a sound, light and haptic environment stemming from the artistic-scientific research Common Grounds. This installation uses a detailed set of hourly environmental data points recorded since 1998 at the Bayelva permafrost measurement station at the Svalbard archipelago in the high arctic region of Norway. Thirty three parameters of the dataset are translated and fed into an array of multi-channel sounding sculptures. Compressed into a single hour, it sonifies the first twenty springs of the current millenium as a navigable, storied, sound-light environment.
This environment establishes an analogous, artificial ecology that maintains an underlying connection to the distribution of sensors installed at the Bayelva research site. The physical-spatial relations of its sound sources correspond to the sensors at the Arctic station: spread three-dimensionally in space, they establish relations with visitors’ moving and listening bodies on both horizontal and vertical planes. In addition, a CO2 sensor measures the local atmosphere and captures the effect of visitors' breath, incorporating the installation space and the visitors into the sounding data stream.
This environment establishes an analogous, artificial ecology that maintains an underlying connection to the distribution of sensors installed at the Bayelva research site. The physical-spatial relations of its sound sources correspond to the sensors at the Arctic station: spread three-dimensionally in space, they establish relations with visitors’ moving and listening bodies on both horizontal and vertical planes. In addition, a CO2 sensor measures the local atmosphere and captures the effect of visitors' breath, incorporating the installation space and the visitors into the sounding data stream.
This sono-choreographic environment intersects the whisper, that speech-act at the limits of audibility, with the urgency of unheard (or at least under-represented) perspectives/ideas/stories. Each instantiation of this environment performs these critical whispers through various texts and instruments.
:: CIRCLE
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'Whisperings: Circle' is an intimate congregation of seven custom made horns that whisper seven texts, one on each day of the week. The whisperings ponder the etymological and astrological roots of the days of the week,
Part of '9days8nights', an exhibition that invited to inhabit instruments for poetic measurement of plural durations of being.
Indoor installation for the space ‘sign,CIAT’ of the Contemporary Institute for Art and Thought in Berlin, 30.8.2021-7.9.2021.
Part of '9days8nights', an exhibition that invited to inhabit instruments for poetic measurement of plural durations of being.
Indoor installation for the space ‘sign,CIAT’ of the Contemporary Institute for Art and Thought in Berlin, 30.8.2021-7.9.2021.
Commissioned by the Contemporary Institute for Art and Thought (CIA&T)
Funded by VG Bild-Kunst
Funded by VG Bild-Kunst
:: WHISTLEBLOWERS
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In 'Whisperings: Whistleblowers' the atmospheric sensibility of electro-acoustic wind instruments is grounded as political voices are mixed into and amplified by the wind. At a time when whistleblowers expose the ways in which we are manipulated by invisible powers, these instruments transform uncomfortable revelations, warnings, and signals into sounds and chants, narrated by artificially generated voices.
Commissioned by the Dystopie sound art festival 2020, the environment was originally conceived as an outdoor sonic intervention for a public space in one of Berlin’s S-bahn stations, the work was subsequently installed in an indoor gallery space because requisite permissions could not be obtained for the public installation.
Commissioned by the Dystopie sound art festival 2020, the environment was originally conceived as an outdoor sonic intervention for a public space in one of Berlin’s S-bahn stations, the work was subsequently installed in an indoor gallery space because requisite permissions could not be obtained for the public installation.
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This environment unfolds as series of coiled bedtime compositions, lullabies that invite the audience into sharing a gesture of sleep. Upon being somatically guided into positions of laying down, an audio-visual-textual concert which has been specifically designed for dome-projection fills the night time with stories and songs of planetary proportions that are each at once both lullaby and wake-up call.
As Covid19 practically cancelled all live-arts events in the spring of 2020, this chapter had to migrate into the disinfected online space and we adapted what was supposed to be a choreographed sleep with live music and projections into an interactive video work. Unable to share a place with our audiences, we broadcasted a shared time in the virtual space of the Vierte-Welt Theater in Berlin.
As Covid19 practically cancelled all live-arts events in the spring of 2020, this chapter had to migrate into the disinfected online space and we adapted what was supposed to be a choreographed sleep with live music and projections into an interactive video work. Unable to share a place with our audiences, we broadcasted a shared time in the virtual space of the Vierte-Welt Theater in Berlin.
Photo credits ©SCC
‘Room Tunings’ is a site-specific, time-based sono-choreographic environment in which a room is tuned to its own modes by measuring its acoustic resonance peaks. These measurements reveal peak frequencies, points in the sonic spectrum that are amplified by the room's architecture and dimensions, that when aggregated construct a site-specific musical mode. Within this mode, a specific number of hexachords are composed and played through a ring of site-specific instruments along the walls. This number corresponds to the duration of the environment such that in a sequence, one chord is played per day of the installation. Particular place as temporal experience
‘Room Tunings: sign CIAT’ was initially conceived for the inner room of the Contemporary Institute for Art and Thought in Berlin; the environment is transposable to other spaces under suitable conditions for design and installation.
‘Room Tunings: sign CIAT’ was initially conceived for the inner room of the Contemporary Institute for Art and Thought in Berlin; the environment is transposable to other spaces under suitable conditions for design and installation.
Commissioned by the Contemporary Institute for Art and Thought (CIA&T)
Funded by VG Bild-Kunst
Funded by VG Bild-Kunst