I had the honor and pleasure of recording the artists' live performance using a four-channel process. The recording in Soundcloude is binaural, so it's perfect to listen to with headphones.

The different experimental musical methods of the two artists are a treat for the ears. Tom Simonetti made the gas boiler itself sound. He used Dadamachines - actuators controlled by MIDI signals that percussively worked the metal at various points on the gas boiler. The echo caused by the beats was an integral part of the musical event. 

Sascha Stadlmeier aka EMERGE supplemented the percussive sounds with flat sounds that were created by electronically processing noise recordings from the gas tank. The resulting sounds and noises interacted with the enormous echo of the boiler interior and formed a successful symbiosis. 

The interior of the boiler is over 80 meters high and measures 45 meters in diameter.

Sascha Stadlmeier aka EMERGE
https://emergeac.wordpress.com

Tom Simonetti 
https://soundlaboratorium.de

Sound Installation In An Old Gasworks In Augsburg (BINAURAL- Use Headphones))

Heinz Pichler
Field Recordist and Photographer
Augsburg / Bavaria / Germany

Sound Installation In An Old Gasworks In Augsburg (BINAURAL- Use Headphones))

Field Recording