Tribunal is a sound installation in front of a transformer station that makes electrical infrastructure audible and provides insight into hidden acoustic worlds. The high-voltage electric lines and transformers generate strong electromagnetic fields that become part of a composition with the help of special antennas. The audience takes a seat on the grandstand - the transformer station becomes the orchestra. 
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Tribunal

This composition was one of the four compositions of the project Caoutchouc Dreams.
Caoutchouc Dreams is a sound project initiated by Clemens Mairhofer and Marie-Andrée Pellerin, which tooke place on the Danube on August 26th 2022. The floating sound installation aims to reverse the iconic gramophone scene from the 1982 film Fitzcarraldo directed by Werner Herzog. Set during the 19th century Rubber Boom in the Amazon region, the film scene captures and condenses in a single shot the mentality of the cultural and economic imperialism of the time. The sound compositions created for this project by Peruvian and European-based artists seek to explore from different perspectives the paradox of the "Amazonian dream".

with sound compositions by
Renzo Filinich Orozco
Polina Khatsenka
Paola Torres Nuñez del Prado
Clemens Mairhofer & Marie-Andrée Pellerin

Caoutchouc Dreams - Amadeus Queen

Clemens Mairhofer's works explore the potentialities of sound’s relational, material and artistic qualities. Sound culture, listening and subjectivity as well as sonic thought and imagination are recurring themes.