© Margherita Spiluttini
ORANGERIE
SOUNDING
On the gradual fabrication of buildings while listening V
Location
Orangerie
Schloss Hof, AT
Work
sound installation
and
sound intervention
Year
04|2011 to 11|2011
Equipment
10 speakers,
1 subwoofer,
5 playback devices
1 hypersonic sound system
Organizer
Castle courtyard
Execution
Josef Reiter
Orangery Sounding is a spatial composition in the literal sense of the Orangery at Schloss Hof. The orangery of the building complex built by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt from 1728 onwards is measured acoustically and used as an instrument or sound box and also integrates the warm air heating, which was technically revolutionary at the time of construction, as the location of part of the speakers.
The focus of the sound installation is to explore their spatial sound character and to illustrate their unmistakable reverberation behavior and natural resonance. The durations of the individual tracks are calculated in such a way that a constantly changing, never-repeating continuum of sound is created.
After an acoustic analysis, samples of viola da gamba, theorbo, glass harmonica and double bass flute are recorded in the studio, tuned to the room and mixed on site. The durations of the individual tracks are calculated in such a way that a constantly changing, never-repeating continuum of sound is created.
The orangery, 36 m long and 7 m high and wide, with the slightly slanted, largest stained glass facade in Europe, allows the entanglement of closed and open space in the garden of paradise and the sky to be experienced as an "ecstasy of infinity". Orangery Sounding brings this special architecture to life, played with historical instruments from the time it was built, processed with contemporary electronic techniques.
© Margherita Spiluttini
ORANGERIE SOUNDING | opening
On the gradual fabrication of buildings while listening V
"The acoustic analysis, "the acoustic fingerprint" of the Orangery becomes the basis and starting point of the sound installation, which aims to intensively experience this special space. Orangery Sounding explores the relationships between sound, space and architecture from earlier works for the The state hall of the Austrian National Library, the Wittgensteinhaus in Vienna, the Hipphalle in Gmunden and the Minoritenkirche in Krems, where Josef Reiter, based on Heinrich von Kleist's essay "About the gradual realization of thoughts when speaking", explored spatial experiences in the listening experience even earlier.
press release
opening of the project
live soundintervention
Opening of the sound installation
am 9.4.2011
with Eva Reiter (viola da gamba), Hubert Hoffmann (theorbo) and Josef Reiter (electronic devices)
© Wolfgang Wössner
