Sonic Art Category: Interactive Museum Installations
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Klangland 23
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Ab dem 14. September 2023 laden Euch die Künstler Max Doehlemann, Sebastian Fleiter, Lukas Hermann, Dr. Michael Mowitz, Samuel Nerl, Udo P. Leis, Adrian Palka, Alexander Rausch, Alexander Spree, David Spyra, Wolfram Spyra, Erwin Stache, Joshua Weitzel herzlich zum Klangland 23 in die Nachrichtenmeisterei und den Future Space ein. Feierliche Eröffnung mit Xhaosmology – Performance…
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REFUGIUM – Stimmen der Vertriebenen
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Refugium is the sound of exile. Using a 12 speaker sound system refugee voices are collaged into a Babel of overlapping testimonies evoking the experience of forced migration in the echoing vastness of the Zionskirche. The positioning of the speakers in the exhibition space and the use of softwares to spatialise sound are intended to…
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Radiophonic Workspace
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The use of Vacuum Tube Radios, acting as spatialised loudspeakers, is of the main Leitmotifs meandering throughout Spyra´s artistic work. The special, somehow ancient sound of those radios has always fascinated him! – Installations like „Reise durch die Radiostadt“ which was a commissioned work for the Industriesalon Schöneweide, is a guided tour through the history…
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Media Technology (3) – Prototype Development
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You tell us what you need, we´ll design and develop it for you! Please contact Spyra for more information!
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Media Technology (2) – Spyraphones
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Custom-built soundproof headphones built for high-quality audio in noisy surroundings and museums. Also available with crazy hallucinophonic designs and binaural microphones (OKM II) built in the outer shells. Please contact Spyra for a personal offer!
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Media Technology (1) – Hör-Raum
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Technical equipment for museums and cultural spaces is also part of Wolfram DER Spyra’s field of activity. Here in the “Friedensräume Lindau”, he has equipped the fantastically designed sound furniture by Kassel designer Stefan Kemna with media technology, so that the audio compositions created by the musicologist Dr Mirijam Streibl reach the open ears of…
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Sound Island
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It´s a real laugh … and it´s easy to install this installation everywhere you´d like!! – Equipped with rechargeable batteries, you can use the ridiculously acclaimed 😉 voice effects of the „Round Table“ in your most favourite places! Easy to use at any kind of events, birthday parties or just outside in a park or…
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Magic Violin
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The „Magic Violin“ allows musically totally inexperienced people to play and create magical sounds by striking its body with a violin bow. The installation supports the musical playfulness and tempts the player to try and follow the sequence of notes of the underlying Spohr composition… and to vary the tone by thaving a go at…
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Drum Table
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Not only hyperactive contemporaries are sometimes observed to spend their pastime drumming with their fingers on bars, table tops, steering wheels or – if non of the above are available- their own thighs. – Why not? – Drumming is fun… especially when you do it with great sounds! But it ́s best fun when you…
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Conductor´s Station
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Did you ever feel the urge to conduct… maybe even to conduct an orchestra? Well, if you ́re not a conductor, your chances are narrow! Even if you go to to the „Haus der Musik“ in Vienna and try their „Virtual Conductor“, you will most likely be disappointed, because the orchestra will sooner or later…
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Jump-O-phone
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A Jump – O – Phone is a new musical instrument that can be used by one or several persons, especially children. Through jumping on the flat, dancefloor-like surface, tonal or rythmic sounds are produced, so that dancing and stomping does in fact create real-time music. The Jump – O – Phone is extremely flat,…
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Lean@Me
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This absolutely unique Spyra – Invention (Design: Stefan Kemna) is a futuristic sound installation for entertainment and body massage. It is a real profit for all public or private spaces where people have to wait… airports, offices, stations and so on. The people can lean against it (in a forewards or backwards position) and will…
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Sound Lounger
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Material: Relaxing chair (Design: Karasek, Vienna), upholstered with alcantara or fine leather, high quality bass shakers, modified amplifier with frequency crossover, headphones or phoenix 3D-surround speakers, cd player. Every inch of your skin contains a big number of tactile sensors that are much more sensitive to deep frequencies than your ears ever could be. –…
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Hospital
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Site specific installation located at a 14th century chapel in rural Germany. Both musical composition and sculptural elements were designed to evoke the building’s original function as an almshouse. The windows were blacked-out in order to achieve a hermetic, timeless atmosphere. Using electronic instrumentation and ambient noise, the 1hr classically structured piece was organised around…
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Panakustikum
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Ten part site specific sound Installation. A series of sonic interventions located in an abandoned apartment which aim to destabilize the usual function of the domestic setting. Comprising ten separate installations situated in the the hallway, WC, living room, kitchen etc, visitors were encouraged to experience each of these spaces as areas of contemplation to…
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Klangoxydation
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Sound installation: steel sheets, sound transducers, composed sound. Various locations including, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel; World Heritage Ctr. Voelklinger Huette; Sveti Toma, Croatia. An electronically generated sound composition is transferred to concave steel plates via sonic transducers. The metal transforms the signals by adding material specific qualities such as resonance frequencies and reverb. As a consequence…
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Stille – Bell Tower
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Room Installation with sound Location: Breitenau Memorial Museum. The second piece within this 4 part sound installation was located in the bell tower of the monastery. This work comprised 2 separate, but interacting sound systems. Firstly, bass-shakers buried beneath a platform constructed at the foot of the tower, interfaced with a loudspeaker at the top,…