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Klangbett

First shown in 1991, the Klangbett forms part of an ongoing series of works which situate the participant in an installation created specifically for the lone listener - a concert for one.

Hommage à Leon Theremin

Following his defection to the West and sub-sequent seizure/imprisonment by the KGB, Leon Theremin, was co-opted by the Russian authorities to work on a series of spying devices.

Little Garden of Sounds

A fourteen part sound exhibition which ran for one hundred days during documenta 10 & 11

Geh´doch in die Oberstadt

The stairwell in its entirety is structured as a chromatic scale with different chords predominating at each consecutive level.

Radiophonic Workspace

The use of Vacuum Tube Radios, acting as spatialised loudspeakers, is of the main Leitmotifs meandering throughout Spyra´s artistic work. The ancient sound of those radios has always fascinated him.

Little Garden of Sounds 22

Interactive Sound Installations / Chillout Area for documenta visitors.

Kick the Bucket

Collaborative project with artist Adrian Palka in which oil barrels are connected to a computer through contact microphones.

Stille: Interrogation

An old reel-to-reel tape recorder and simple table are used as sculptural elements in the third work within the Breitenau series.

Stille - Bell Tower

Room Installation with sound Location: Breitenau Memorial Museum. The second piece within this 4 part sound installation

Steel vs. Steel

This piece represents one part of a series of works focusing on' the sonic properties of steel.

Solar System

An adapted grand piano, the strings of which are replaced by magnetic tape and sonic transducers, is surrounded by eight reel-to-reel tape recorders.

Las Vegas Meditation

In a reversal of the expected casino environs, participants find themselves transported into a non- participatory role.

Etherlands

In an inversion of expected antenna function, namely to collect electromagnetic waves and redirect them to a receiver, this work denies that possibility.

Strom - Hommage à Willi Ogan

Hommage a Willi Ogan, was one component of a six part sound intervention, "Strom" which explored the theme of Electric Current.

In Case of Fire

"In case of fire, stay calm!" This statement is translated into morse code, each dash/dot being replaced by corresponding drum sounds.

Stille - Dark Cell

Room Installation with sound Location: Breitenau Memorial Museum.

Electroacoustic Chair

Sounds picked up from the immediate environment by a microphone, are relayed via a customized high voltage amplifier to insulated contact plates which form the seat and back of the Chair.

Hospital

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.

Acoustic City Maps

Acoustic explorations of urban environments represented by multiple recordings which aim to capture the subjective auditory experience of selected locations at a specific moment in time.

Transit - No. 7

Part of a Cultural Exchange Project between 20 artists from Germany and Eastern Europe in which each artist was allocated in a room within an abandoned 1950's hotel.

REFUGIUM - Stimmen der Vertriebenen

Diese Klanginstallation bezieht sich auf die Rolle der Kirche als Zufluchtsort für Migranten und Flüchtlinge.

Klangoxydation

Sound installation: steel sheets, sound transducers, composed sound. Various locations including, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel.

Panakustikum

Ten part site specific sound Installation. Location: uninhabited apartment, Kassel.

Bath

This installation investigates the structural aspects of architectural space as dissolved through the fluid qualities of light and sound.

Green House FX

Collaborative project with artists Palka & Miller exploring the relation between sonic art, performative objects and contemporary environmental issues.

Black Box

Participants are invited to inscribe their earliest memories on the surface of a black metal cabinet, an object chosen for its multiple associations.

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