An arrangement of metal cabinets of the same product is the basic material for the sound sculpture 'Resonance Box'. By placing them exactly next to each other in a row, the visual impression of a large spatial body is created. In contrast to the everyday positioning of cabinets, this spatial body should be placed in such a way that an all-round approach is possible. Although the front of the closed doors remains the visible side, the object vibrates and is the starting point of an acoustic treatment in which the material itself, the sheets of the walls, floors and compartments are made audible.

The sound moves the material as an automatic resonance in an otherwise completely hermetic object. The visual unity of the row of cabinets as a whole is contradicted by the acoustic life of the cabinets themselves. There is nothing serial, linear, but rather a vibration that encompasses the entire spatial body and sometimes makes concrete events inside the cabinet comprehensible from the outside. Pieces of wire of different lengths and thicknesses serve as transmitters, which seem to grow out of the openings of the air slits and keyholes.

The intensity of the impulses is drowned out by the volume of the natural oscillation of the materials and by their noticeable vibrations. An indirect light edge running around the objects bottom supports the strangeness of the sounding object.

• Sonambiente – Klang Kunst Sound Art, Berlin 2006

15 identical metal cabinets; metal wire; light; 5-channel composition; electronical equipment