'3 new nurses': Interviews in a sound art style, with 3 non-German nurses who cover the three care sectors (nursing home, hospital, home care) and who come from former or currently devastated war zones (Bosnia, Vietnam and Ukraine) about their professional and personal situation and asked them to name a favourite song and a plant from their homeland.

The sound of the individual voice (German with corresponding accent) is multiplied and splintered analogous to the torn social situation of the protagonists, quasi as a sonic manifestation of a multiple self. In these multiplications, splinter and cancer forms of the voice, an important musical element emerges: the breathing sounds when speaking, which were worked out of the interviews with special contrasting methods and are now projected into the surrounding space. These extremised breathing and swallowing sounds stand for both sides: for the breathing distress of the Corona patients as well as for the overtaxing of the nurses in the nursing emergency. The song in the native language is not spared these processes either, but at the same time forms a conciliatory counterpoint in the linguistically torn sound event.

2022
3 installative interventions in the park 'Schwesternpark Witten'

3 bed gallows with acrylic glass pane / transducer / sensor and 2 satellite speakers
Interview voices, song, plant illustr.

Duration: each 12min.
Wittener Tage für neue
Kammermusik 2021/22
May 6-8 2022

Commissioned by Stadt Witten, supported by
Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

3 neue Schwestern - Excerpt

wel-come, bien-venue, will-kommen ...
The wide stereo installation uses 22 fragmentated voices of 22 people of different countries. All of them are saying the same word in their natural language. The splitted word of greeting „wel – come“ says something utopian without telling what it is. Through the fragmentation (granulating) the words are decomposed and come together again as an individual chorus of voices, sounding strange and familiar at the same time. 

Long outdoor-version for garden installations: 22 min., short indoor-version for passage ways: 8 min. With support by TU Studio Berlin

wel-come (2003)

"Le Due Forze di Taranto" has three parts, working with the conflicts of this city in South-Italy in a site-specific installation on two levels. 
The city is trapped between two forces – the steel and petrochemical industry in the northwest and the navy in the southeast (NATO military port) - and both they are polluting the air, the ground and the sea since decades, and they are restricting the live of the people in a physical way by walls and forbidden areas. Since some years the residents of the city are protesting, independently from parties and unions, but also trapped by Taranto's big dilemma: to protest against the main employers of the city.

The installation brings the political forces together in a condensed, aesthetic situation at a underpassing in the center of the city. At Ponte Girevole – the connection between the new town and the old town, between the inland sea Mar Piccolo and the outer Mare Grande – two double-sided photo plates were installed over the stairways. They represent the two ruling powers, standing vis-à-vis, visible on the street level, but standing with their back to the city. On the second side of these plates there are shown two distinctive parts of the walls which cut through the city, one by the wide area of the 'Marina Militare', one by the huge steel plant 'ILVA'.

On the low level in the underpassing a third force gets a voice, represented by a member of the independent organisation "Commitato". In opposition to the representatives on top his face ist visible and also his voice is audible – of cause hidden in the underground (and with an extra title: "Una Terza Forza di Taranto" – "A Third Power of Taranto"). Out of an interview with him on his personal live as native Tarantino, as a worker in the steel plant and as a political activist a speech collage was made, broken by the disruption between work and health, between environmentalism and breadwinning, interrupted by field recording sounds of special locations in the town, ILVA and the navy. 

Le Due Forze di Taranto / Two Powers of Taranto

4 bird duets of 12 of my installation GRÜN HÖREN, running at IGA in Berlin-Marzahn, see www.gruenhoeren.info
Stereo mix of original 6-channel sound installation.

GH - Vogelduett09 - OrphZaun

GRÃN HÃREN

GH-Vogelduett07-KatVogel

Ausschnitt eines Radioportraits über das kompositorische/klangkünstlerische Schaffen des Berliner Künstlers Georg Klein von Thomas Grötz.
Gesendet auf DeutschlandRadio Kultur am 18.3. 2014

GK-Radioportrait-Groetz

Radio report on the sound walk 'toposonie : : engelbecken' including interview with the artist georg klein

Radio report : toposonie : : engelbecken

3 pieces of the sound walk in the former 'Luisenstädtischer Kanal' in Berlin Kreuzberg/Mitte, with modified historic radio reports on the Wall, the Nazi-time, the house-squatting in the 80ies and other historic sounds and voices. Please use headphones for binaural experience.
www.toposonie.info

Te7 - EBNazis

Te5 - WBunten

Te4 - Mauerbericht

Make me wild - Godwin / tracing Godwin (2011)
Voice out of an art project by georg klein with an installation with Godwin poster and red shining loudspeaker and several site-specific posters in public space.
Participation project, see: http://godwin.georgklein.de/
Voice: Godwin (Nigerian, illegal immigrant, living in Europe)
installation loop: 6min. / poster loop: 3:52

wel-come (2003)

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