Fallender ton für 207 lautsprecher boxen
(Falling tone for 207 speakers)
2Yk Galerie, Berlin, 2004
This installation is the first in a series of works made with discarded loudspeakers which I collected over many years in London and Berlin. In 2006, I was invited by Hull Art Lab to make 230 Unwanted Speakers, and by 2009, I had enough speakers for Installation for 300 speakers, Pianola and vacuum cleaner, created during a residency at Beaconsfield Gallery in London. That piece became the first work of sound art in the Saatchi Collection, was seen by over half a million visitors as the centrepiece of its 2010 summer show in London, and won the British Composer Award for Sonic Art.
“Scary and impressive at the same time; this enormous, huge energy; this cruel curiosity of waiting for the crash. The end within sight and the infinity of the falling tone. After listening for a long time you do not ask yourself if it is pleasant or unpleasant — just knowing that something has happened creates fears in me. This is a successful piece for us know-it-alls.”
Andreas Schuster
From the gallery visitors’ book:
“Sounds like heaven… and hell. Thank you for the idea.”
“The intersection of the tones: you think you hear something and it is coming from yourself.”
“The intersection of the tones: you think you hear something and it is coming from yourself.”
Fallender ton was featured on the cover of the Journal of Acoustic Ecology.
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