Steinsengen
sound installation (2015)
Stone strata, deposits of sediment
dating back millions of years, pressed together under pressure – these
are contemporary witnesses which can be split or broken along their
divisional surfaces. Steinsengen is a piece of
sound-based geology. It focuses on the splitting of stone and
anthracite, during which the built-up tension discharges itself with a
fine clinking and crunching.
Pressed together and ringing out from the
mouth of the mine, the individual sounds form a varying contrast to the
multi-layered, poetic ‘clink-scape’, which floods the contours of the
former machinery hall in the form of a steel sound-scape, gently
caressing the predominant, picturesque landscape of the Muttental.
from 24 April 2015 to 26 April 2015
as part of ‘Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik 2015’, Muttental, Witten, Germany
from 14 August to 2 September 2016, Maison 44, Basel, Switzerland
as part of the exhibition ‘7 Räume’ by Ralph Hauswirth
5 February 2018, Entrance Hall, Embassy of Switzerland, London, United Kingdom
from 28 June to 18 August 2019, Kulturraum S4 in der Kaverne, Vild, Switzerland
as part of the exhibition ‘Unter Tag – Kulturgut der Zukunft
