Loud/Quiet – Speaker in the space

Voices - spoken words in the resonance of the buildings structure. The space responds to the audible processes. Sounds mirror the optical dimensions and translate the vastness. The presence of exaggeration, as an expression of the acoustic events transforms the structure into an immense sound space within the architecture.

A serial block of drawings is presented on three walls in a side chapel as an open space of tall wall elements. The drawings are executed impasto with wax crayon and over the entire surface as blackened graph paper with a line form always visible centrally in the image. The template for the shape is a multitude of speakers and their silhouettes as scratched out border lines. Each image motif is individual and the overall series is without repetition. Also readable as a second picture element is an adjective, similar to a commentary on each drawing in the center at the bottom of the sheet. All adjectives describe in some way the quality of sound and, as spoken words, form the definitive starting point of the acoustic processing.

The auditory parts of my installation consist of three sonically related and compositionally processed elements. A sound phenomenon condensed like a speech cloud, in which a multi-layered addition of different voices of people talking through each other stimulates the rooms acoustics. Without an audible center and just loud enough to reflect the built space. It is immediately apparent that these are speech sounds, but without any intelligibility of words and close to the noise sensation. As a second auditory element I quote the adjectives readable in the drawings as spoken words. Localized always at a different place and perceptible as clear and exact auditory points in the room. Another short sound impulse in different tonality subliminally rhythmizes the sound movements in the room.

Loud-Speaker

The adjectives that qualitatively describe a sound become a sound event themselves as acoustic material. Alternating, spoken by a female and a male voice, the words travel through the sound sources hanging in the space as a mediating overhead level between the floor and the immense height of the cross arches.

Speaker of the Installation:

• female voice: Anne Fink

• male voice: Cedric Cavatore

Quiet-Speaker

In a series of drawings derived from the variety of different speaker shapes, a qualitative statement for an imaginary sound is created by assigning (naming) adjectives.

12 spherical speakers, steel cable, cable, 12-channel composition, electronical equipment.

150 drawings format:  h 42cm, w 30cm.