Oystercatchers on the beach of Hvalstöðin, the location of two wrecks of whaling ships that were sunk by the Sea Shepherds in 1986. For more information see: https://www.seashepherd.org.uk/campaigns/operation-mjolnir/campaign-to-end-fin-whaling-in-iceland.html

Recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo and Sound Devices MixPre 10 II.

Oystercatchers at Shipwreck in Hvalstöðin,  Hvalfjörður, Iceland, 01 August 2021

A 24-hour sound installation for Pentecost meditation by Benjamin Heidersberger

Eight speakers define a space in a church, transmitting sequences of piano notes generated by a computer program and played live. Pentatonic scales of prime number length are constantly phase shifting, fragments of melodies appear and disappear. Given the chosen number of scales the composition lasts longer than the age of the universe. 24 hours are being played.

The pentatonic notes generate a certain harmony. There is no compositional intention, the permutation algorithm will eventually play all possibilities. Therefore the accustic event has no intended meaning and the listener can find his own interpretation and association. The listener can move freely around and explore the different sound events as well as the space of the church. He can come and go and come back, according to the individual taste.

Sunday, June 8, 2014 (Pentecost), 3 p.m. until June 9, 3 p.m., St. Johannes-Evangelist Kirche, Auguststr. 90, 10117 Berlin, Germany. The church is open permanently during the installation, also at night.

Pentatonic Permutations III is the third sound installation in this church since 2012. This is a triaxial rerecording. Use headphones.

Pentatonic Permutations III (Pentecost Meditation)

Staircase is the bonus track from my most recent album "Time Sketches" released this year Neue Meister label. 
It is only available over iTunes.
To order/stream/download the album, visit:
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Staircase

The isolated crackle and surface noise from track '1/1' of a copy of the original vinyl release of Brian Eno's 'Ambient 1 – Music for Airports'

Photo: Newcastle International Airport, 2 December 2010 (© Ben Ponton)

2020-07-18/29 Vestigial Ambient 1

Vestigial Ambient 1

Benjamin Heidersberger, born 1957, background in physics, biology, computer science (dropout). Cofounder of the artist group Head Resonance Company in Wolfsburg in 1978, of Ponton-Lab in Hamburg in 1989 and since then its director in Hannover, Germany, from 1994 on. Founder of Kulturserver in 2000 and of the Institut Heidersberger in 2002. Various large scale media projects (Van Gogh TV, Ars Electronica, documenta) in Europe, USA and Japan. Publications on computers, media and society as well as lectures on interactive media.

Pentatonic Permutations III (Pentecost Meditation)

Benjamin Heidersberger

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