Workshop Berlin: Sound works

Fly Paper / Grill Cantor / Kikkit / Metal Containers / Playback / Riffelschiene / Silent Neighbours / Tongue Squash

 

Playback

The Wriezener Freiraum provides blank social space with little predefined patterns of behavior. A perfect place for suchlike experiments: Illusion is a revolutionary weapon, based on William S. Burroughs tape-playback experiments we try to manipulate reality by embedding field recordings into the sonic environment. Intended to fake acoustic reality, the playback of prerecorded scenes through hidden soundsystems will constitute space and atmospheres that may encourage certain situations. From simple confusion to concrete actions we are testing out effects of this technique. We use sound as a tool to produce and reconfigure space.

taperecorder 1: filmmusik
Warschauer bridge is a place of constant movement. Thousands of young people are crossing daily, somehow evoking the image of a catwalk. The playback of movie scores will initiate the construction of artificial situations by exaggerating the act of staging.
taperecorder 2: sex tape festival
"(...) consider (...) the possibility that a virus can be activated or even created by very small units of sound (...). Imagine, for example a sex virus. It so inflames the sex centres in the back brain that the host is driven mad from sexuality, all other considerations are blacked out. Parks full of naked, frenzied people (...)."
(William S. Burroughs. Electronic Revolution)
taperecorder 3: do bbq
Intended to fake acoustic reality, the playback of prerecorded scenes will constitute space and atmospheres that may encourage certain situations. Wriezener Freiraum provides blank social space with little predefined patterns of behavior. A perfect place for suchlike experiments.

Check pictures from the exhibition on 4th and 5th of July 2008 here.

Robert Schwarz / Marie Luise Wunder

 

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20/06/2008