The Silence Behind the Sonic World 2020
Gallery Errant Sound Berlin
With the process of hearing loss, the sounds of the outside world become increasingly quieter until they fall silent, and inner sounds become much more present. Several sounding birds‘ nests hang down from the ceiling of a room at head height. They are prepared with miniature loudspeakers and reproduce the soundscapes of various soundscapes in a quasi-filtered manner, as if from a distance.
Each of the nests nested into sound loops in the sound installation represents a specific place. One of the nests, filled with sounds and noises, makes the soundscape of the city of Cairo audible in addition to Berlin: cars drive through the delicate bird’s nests, human voices or snatches of music cross the finely woven nest. The proportions of size and volume are converted: from high-frequency loudspeakers, the usually loud, everyday human activity, shrunk to tinyness, penetrates only very quietly to the visitor’s ear. The small sounds flow, jump, roll, pull, push and turn around the listener’s ear.
Technicals: René Wetzold
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