Subway exhaust shaft in front of the house at Praterstrasse 10

As part of TASTE 0-20 with the support of the ske-fonds

06/15/2003

 

an acoustic intervention responds to a diffuse urban space situation.

lying on the grating of a subway exhaust air shaft, two loudspeakers radiate into the crooked shaft and use it as a reverberation room or echo chamber. 

the sound material consists of electronic sounds and processed concrete sounds recorded in the environment of this sound location. undisguised acoustic windows from the surrounding space are opened up in this sonic foundation - a directional microphone transports acoustic space-time events and irritates the optical-acoustic perception continuum.

the goal is less a musical expression than a subtle form of activation of a non-place.