Sonic Art Category: Sonic Works

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. The installation focused on the transient nature of the given space. A series of chemical bottles, illuminated from below, were filled with various liquids including gasoline, blood,…

Hommage a Willi Ogan, was one component of a six part sound intervention, „Strom“ which explored the theme of Electric Current. This piece was dedicated to a Great Uncle who was known in Franconia for his Light Music works composed on electronic organ for small orchestras. The elements used in this piece, a 50’s domestic…

Following his defection to the West and sub-sequent seizure/imprisonment by the KGB, Leon Theremin (after whom the world’s first electronic instrument was named), was co-opted by the Russian authorities to work on a series of spying devices. Inspired by this phase of the inventor’s life, ‚Hommage‘ explores aspects of bugging and internment – a series…

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. The resulting soundscapes are presented in conjunction with interactive wall maps.  The use of dummy-head mikes and capsulated headphones present the recordings in heightened form, thus offering participants an…

Collaborative project with artist Adrian Palka in which oil barrels are connected to a computer through contact microphones. On throwing stones at the barrels, spectators activate sampled sounds extracted from news and media archives, initiating a multiplicity of voices and moods associated with historical events. The sampled selection has been reworked at different locations to…

„In case of fire, stay calm!“ This statement is translated into morse code, each dash/ dot being replaced by corresponding drum sounds. The resulting rhythm is given visual representation through an LED panel situated at the top of the fire tower. Within the composition the phrase is repeated, each repetition incorporating an increase of tempo…

An old reel-to-reel tape recorder and simple table are used as sculptural elements in the third work within the Breitenau series. The scene, evoking that of a setting for an interrogation, takes as a point of reference the development of the reel-to-reel during the second World War. Historic sound documents mixed with a soundscape composition…

Participants are invited to inscribe their earliest memories on the surface of a black metal cabinet, an object chosen for its multiple associations. The sounds of the chalk inscriptions induce a computer generated voice within the cabinet which reads from Sigmund Freud’s ‚Interpretation of Dreams‘. Encoded signifiers of the unconscious are juxtaposed with the omniscient…

In a setting evocative of 18th century decadence and suggestive of Las Vegas postmodern pastiche, a group of chairs face away from a central table on which are placed several headphones. Audible through these, are soundscapes recorded in every casino along the Las Vegas strip, alongside which can be heard the hypnotic circling of a…

In an inversion of expected antenna function, namely to collect electromagnetic waves and redirect them to a receiver, this work denies that possibility. Instead, radio signals are directed groundwards to be absorbed by the earth. Highly conceptual, this is a sonic work which omits, rather than emits sound. The piece was, „influenced by a fairytale…

Room Installation with sound Location: Breitenau Memorial Museum. The Breitenau memorial is housed in a former 12thc monastery which, during the Nazi period, functioned as an early concentration camp and later as an educational correctional centre. ‚Stille‘, meaning ‚Silence‘, was a 4 part sound installation which worked with aspects of the memorial’s architecture and history.…