*to take full advantage of the binaural sound experience, headphones are recommended*

ffountain has been staged spatially as a 14-channel sound installation on 1st and 2nd of April 2022 at University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe. It is committed to the idea of pop culture being a strong political medium of our current times, but also creating a peculiar sphere of listening, bodily activation, community building and countering commemorative culture. 

ffountain is a counter-fountain. It references a misogynist fountain in Karlsruhe („Brunnen auf dem Stephanplatz“) in form and spatiality, but collects voices that grapple with this patriarchal history and its contemporary continuities on various dimensions.

The mixtape includes tracks by Aïsha Devi, Anne Imhof & Eliza Douglas, Billie Eilish, Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul, Dope Saint Jude, Eartheater, Fauna, Jojo Abot, Kaleo Sansaa, Little Simz, Peaches, Princess Nokia and yeule, whereas every artist/duo had their own spatial position/their own speaker.

ffountain is a diploma project by Vera Gärtner. The mixtape has been realized with support by Luise Peschko and Lorenz Schwarz.



Tracklist:
01: Not My Responsibility, Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever, 2020 
02: Ahava, Fauna – Syncronia, 2020 
03: How To Fight, Eartheater – Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin, 2020 
04: My Name is Nat Cmiel, yeule – Glitch Princess, 2022 
05: HAHA, Charlotte Adigéry, Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer, 2022 
06: Conformity vs Deformity, Jojo Abot – Meditations of Resistance and Existence, 2020 
07: Brujas, Princess Nokia – 1992 Deluxe, 2017 
08: My Body My Home, Kaleo Sansaa – Solarbased Kwing, 2021  
09: Medusa’s Song, Anne Imhof, Eliza Douglas – Faust, 2019 
10: The Couch, or The Most Important Source of Energy for Life on Earth, Johanna Hedva – The Sun and the Moon, 2019 
11: Thank You, Charlotte Adigéry, Bolis Pupul, – Topical Dancer, 2022 
12: Pay Mi In Cash, Kaleo Sansaa  – Solarbased Kwing, 2021  
13: Venom (Remix), Little Simz – Venom (Remix) [From Venom: Let There Be Carnage], 2021 
14: Didn’t Come to Play, Dope Saint Jude – Resilient, 2018 
15: Light in Places, Peaches – Rub, 2015 
16: I’m Not Always Where My Body Is, Aïsha Devi – S.L.F., 2019 
17: Moshpit I, Anne Imhof, Eliza Douglas, Billy Bultheel – SEX, 2021

ffountain (binaural mix)

A ffountain mixtape for "lavanderie de la nuit" performed within a listening session in the frame of Leia Walz' diploma "an invitation to an exhibition in a laundry room" in Karlsruhe, May 2023.

Underwater recordings of four fountains in Karlsruhe, and of the river Alb flowing from Bulach to Karlsruhe are overlaid with sparkling fluid pop elements.

Hydrophone Recordings
00:00 – Östlicher Najadenbrunnen Karlsruhe
01:36 – Frauenbrunnen Karlsruhe
12:32 – Brunnen am Stephanplatz Karlsruhe
22:13 – Wäscherinnenbrunnen, Karlsruhe
28:28 – Alb Karlsruhe

Tracklist
01:04 – Cucina Povera - Anarkian kuvajainen
02:40 – Fatima Al Qadiri - Body Double 
04:17 – Eartheater - Utterfly FX
05:20 – Beatrice Dillon - Workaround One
08:00 – Klein - Lifetime
09:04 – Cucina Povera - Teerenpeli
11:44 – Eartheater - Homonyms
16:52 – Clap! Clap! - Rainy Souls, Gloomy
18:32 – Eartheater - Utterfly FX
21:24 – Clap! Clap! - Witch Interlude
22:56 – DJ Kolt - Obscuro
25:01 – Eartheater - Ecdysisyphus
25:14 – Deena Abdelwahed x Basile3 - Alpha GPC
28:16 – Enya - Boadicea
33:20 – Cast of Faust - Bella Ciao

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