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2 site-based sound installations

Festival Heroines of Sound, Berlin 2015


I have connected two places in Berlin and two acoustic situations that normally exist separately in urban space.  I found sounds in both environments that I could dislocate and newly implant.  

The Pallasseum and Radialsystem: I liked their contrasts in terms of soundscape and acoustics. I also found their social and functional differences interesting, as well as their architectural parallels as post and beam constructions (glass or concrete on remnants of WW2):
On one hand, Radialsystem, a former pumping station, as a well-frequented venue – on the other, the Pallasseum, as a residential complex; the situation at the waterside, and in contrast, the Pallasseum’s overpass as a concrete crossbar amplifying the din of traffic.

Radialsystem, built in 1881, is characterized by its special location on the water. Its terrace, situated directly at the Spree river, is embedded in veins of water-, automobile- and train traffic, offering an opportunity to consciously attend to the urban soundscape: muffled traffic sounds from the Schilling bridge, boat motors, shore birds, and water sounds dominate the immediate acoustic environment. From time to time the rail traffic of Ostbahnhof station is audible from farther away. On some days you hear the pulsing rhythms of party boats or the music of adjacent techno clubs.

Meanwhile, the sonic atmosphere in the district of Schöneberg is completely different. The Pallaseum, constructed on a WW2 bunker, and formed like a bridge over the street, was built in 1977 according to designs of architect Jürgen Sawade – a residential complex in a deprived area. The soundscape is dominated by residential and road noise. The building over Pallas Street functions like an acoustic amplifier.

On opening a clothes container at this site, I discovered a container noise and implanted this sound on the Radialsystem terrace. To do so, I installed an array of speakers near the water on the Radialsystem terrace and added an acoustic drawing made up of lines to the site. When you linger on the terrace, you can hear the metallic container noise: For this, I stretched, amplified and spatialized the sound. The tonal field of networked sound sources suggests a vertical line, rapidly driving itself onward. In contrast, from the jetty below, you can hear residential noise that I found at the Pallasseum, placed statically at four points in space.

I also gave the Pallasseum site a new listening space: in the container in front of the building, in the confined space, in miniature, I hid a second sonic apparatus. Whenever someone approaches the sound-container they hear the banks of the Spree at Radialsystem and sound excerpts from the Heroines of Sound Festival 2015, which is layered daily with the latest sonic events in a site-based process of consolidation.

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gamut inc : EX MACHINA (excerpts)
music for retro-futuristic music machines
realeasedate 30.01.2015
bółt / satelita 

gamut inc: EX MACHINA LP preview

In this sound performance a speaker is lowered into an approx. 1.5 meter deep hole being successivly covered with more and more soil. The speaker is playing the sound of a human voice screaming. The voice sounds consequetivly more suffocated as more soil is piled on top of the speaker. Without narration this installation is about the slow motion transformation of a repetetive sound - the human voice - which dives down into the subterrean world of shadows. Beyond the earthly endeavors the voice touches Earth's interior and tells through this material the story of the transformation of the Conditio Humana on this planet. AUSLAND Berlin 2014 

Vox Humana, amplified solo voice from a speaker covered with soil

ROWETOR is about holding steady sounds over a long time inspired by guitar player Keith Rowe and performed on 29th February 2016 at TonHalle Hannover by TonHallenOrchester Hannover:

Carl-Ludwig Hübsch - Directed By, Idea
Claudia Burghard (https://soundcloud.com/claudiaburghard) - Voice
Clara Däubler - Contrabass
Johannes Keller (https://soundcloud.com/johanneskeller) - Contrabass
Andreas Burckhardt - Tenor Saxophone
Felix Petry(https://soundcloud.com/felix-petry) - Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet
Matthias Oßwald (https://soundcloud.com/o-c-eastwood) - Bass Clarinet
Hans Wendt - Trombone
Willi Hanne (https://soundcloud.com/willi-hanne) - Drums
Timo Warnecke  - Drums
Wilson Novitzki (https://soundcloud.com/wilson-novitzki) - Electric Guitar
mcddavid - Acoustic Guitar
NaabtalDeath - Amplified Zither

Carl-Ludwig Hübsch's ROWETOR performed by TonHallenOrchester Hannover

We are proud to present our third release on our Label Made from Nothing! The release ...ins Extreme geschrieben features works by: Hermann Keller, Helmut Zapf and Georg Katzer. All pieces were performed by the modern art ensemble. The CD as well as the digital Download can be bought on our page here: https://madefromnothing.bandcamp.com/.

05 - Georg Katzer - Arietta - Hektischer Stillstand - Adagietto - Teaser

04 - Helmut Zapf - Albedo VIII - Teaser

02 - Georg Katzer - Verschattet Flüchtig Und Meistens Gedämpft - Teaser

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The sounds of the wind blowing on the claypots installed on the sails of Moinho de Aviz, a beautiful windmill in Portugal's Montejunto mountain. The recording is in binaural format, please listen to it with headphones.

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