interactive sound sculpture for a public parc
Festival Netzwerk KLANG Hamburg and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin 2010
Speakers’ Corner, one of earliest phenomena of democratic publicity, which occured in the north-east corner of London’s Hyde Park, was a place where it was possible to deliver public speeches, as an opportunity to debate and discussion. Freedom of expression was granted. Jutta Ravenna´s sound-sculpture is a rendering of this situation in terms of sound art. In form of a sonic intervention in public space she implemented external public address loudspeakers of different origin like ships, train stations, border control installations. Embedded into the specific visual, acoustic and social environment of the parc or the area of Böll-Foundation, the sculpture invited passers-by to interfere with the sonic events by delivering their own speech inputs into the built-in microphones, thereby actively transforming the sound material by superimposing their own vocal interventions. Two microphones integrated vis-à-vis to each other offered the possibility to speak or to sing into the sound-sculpture simultaneously, thus possibly causing a musical discourse.
