Bubble Music

During my first stay in Japan, I made various sound recordings of urban and natural sounds. By immersing myself in a culture that was completely foreign to me, I tried to acquire the reading of the new hearing impressions and make them artistically available.

Based on listening experiences that I perceived as special acoustic situations - the sound in a bamboo grove, for example, or the overlapping soundscapes of inner-city shopping streets with their constant sound reinforcement or the different variety of natural sounds - I began to relate sounds and noises to real objects and everyday objects in order to make the audiblespecifically perceptible in these new contexts.

The sounds that I recorded imagined the material properties of e.g. water, stones, speech sounds or street noises and created a musical context through their presence.

The sound sculpture "bubble music" also corresponds to this approach: A collection of white drinking bowls stands on a large flat pedestal in the room. Each bowl is equipped with a wired speaker. The sound of bursting air bubbles on water surfaces can be heard, with many different "bubbles" creating a constantly changing density and spatiality of the sound pattern.

• Gift of Hiroshima (begleitende Präsentation) Empore Mensaforum, HBK, Braunschweig 2006

75 white bowls; 75 speakers; white cube; cable; 12-channel composition; electronical equipment