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

Caoutchouc Freeze by Polina Khatsenka uses onomatopoetic elements extracted from field-recordings and interviews with the inhabitants of San Francisco in Pucallpa. The gradual deconstruction of the voice epitomises the dehumanisation of indigenous people: the words are slowly losing their structure and are morphing into industrial-like noise.

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Caoutchouc dreams is a sound project initiated by Clemens Mairhofer and Marie-Andrée Pellerin, which took place on the Danube on August 26th 2022. The floating sound installation aimed to reverse the iconic gramophone scene from the film Fitzcarraldo (1982) 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

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@clemensmairhofer
@m-a-pellerin

Caoutchouc Freeze

The whole Smackos - EDEN IN A SEA OF MISERY album on Nightwind Records NW027 in one mixed sequence. For you to dilute your soul to, fall asleep to, work to, commute to, travel to, hike, stroll to, reflect to, trip acid to etc.etc.etc. Avaible at the Legowelt bandcamp here -> https://legowelt.bandcamp.com/album/eden-in-a-sea-of-misery

©2015-2020 All tracks composed, written and performed by Danny Wolfers. Recorded at the North Sea Institute for the Overmind Scheveningen, Holland.

Instruments used:
ELKA X705 Space organ, Waldorf Synthesizer, Roland JV2080, SRV-330, Korg Electribe II.

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Smackos - Eden in a Sea of Misery (Complete album in 1 mix)

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.

Caoutchouc Dreams - Amadeus Queen

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