Melo Melo

Cups formed from thin paper and layered serve as sound resonators. In a free arrangement, standing and hanging, the shapes like ear trumpets, make everything more perceptible. Speakers cast in cement or plaster serve as feeders, active but silent. The sounds are conducted through tubes feeding into the different goblets, through which they can be heard. They are amplifiers for outside sounds, transmitted in real time, or sounds composed by me, or a mix of both. Through the particularly flat cone of the object the sound waves escape unfocused and in diffuse characteristics. It is as if no sound source could be named locally, as if the room is filled with seemingly endless noise, often modulated by the resonance of the architecture. Transmitted in real time to the inside and made audible by the object.

• Raum 55/51, Mönchengladbach 1991

• 5 Räume, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 1992

• Membran, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken 1993

• Landschaft, Kunstverein Schloß Plön, Plön 1996

• Drawing, Sounds & Ambiences, Alte Fischhallen, Cuxhaven 2012

Paper goblets in differing numbers and modifications; translucent industrial hose; cylindric cast form with integrated speakers; cable; electronical equipment.