silent music
Balloon Project II “Stille” sound installation with 2 grand pianos, 1 large balloon, loudspeakers and transducers. The installation “Stille” (Silence) was created for the XVIII. Mitteldeutsche Tagung für Musiktheorie und Hörerziehung (The Central German Conference for Music Theory and Listening Education) in Leipzig. The sounds of the installation are taken from the work “Music for […]
“Balloon Project I” is a site-specific sound installation proposed on request for the Linachtalsperre (Linach Valley Dam) in Vöhrenbach, southern Germany. The project is yet to be realised. The work combines high-frequency balloons, distributed on the surface of the reservoir lake, with huge low-frequency balloons, squeezed between the concrete structures on the front of the […]
“Kaminoyama Soundmark” is a permanent site-specific installation commissioned by the Donaueschinger Musiktage and the City of Donaueschingen. In 1924, the Japanese poet Saitō Mokichi travelled to Donaueschingen to visit the source of the Danube. 100 years later, in 2024, Robin Minard travelled in turn to Kaminoyama, Saitō’s hometown, to record its bells and local soundscapes. […]
The installation “Chundua” was conceived in 2022 for the historic lecture hall of the Museum Koenig Bonn. The Bonn installation consisted of 6 planar loudspeakers (IDMT Ilmenau), 85 table-mounted loudspeaker objects and 29 channel audio. In 2024 the installation was revised for a presentation at ZiMMT (Zentrum für Immersive Medienkunst Musik und Technologie) in Leipzig. […]
Radio composition / stereo / 51’10” LISTEN Commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur Berlin for the program Klangkunst and the West Deutsche Rundfunk (WDR3) for the program Open Sounds. In 2023 composer Robin Minard travelled on two field recording trips to Mongolia where he made audio recordings not only of the vast, open nature of central […]
“Sueños de rana” is a site-specific installation for the courtyard of the Museo de Arte in Santa Marta, Colombia with 16 mid-range loudspeakers, 2 full-range loudspeakers and 8 channel audio. The sound installation “Sueños de rana” is based on sound recordings made in May 2022 in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and […]
“Chundua – Froschträume” is a site-specific installation for the historic lecture hall of the Museum Koenig Bonn with 6 planar loudspeakers (IDMT Ilmenau), 85 table-mounted loudspeaker objects and 29 channel audio. In the spring of 2022 Robin Minard, City Sound Artist Bonn 2022, traveled to the rainforest in northern Colombia on a biological research […]
A site specific installation for the entrance stairway of the D-Museum in Seoul, South Korea with blue plastic film, construction elements and various loudspeakers constellations. The installation combines elements of Silent Music, Silence Blue and Rosace. Presentations 2020: D-Museum, Seoul, South Korea (site specific)
An installation based on the radio composition Kayapó – The Crying Chieftain Raoni with 80 mid-range waterproof loudspeakers on adapted microphone stands, 4 megaphones, 2 hidden full-range waterproof loudspeaker boxes, 46-channel audio. Presentations 2022: Lichthaus Kino, Kunstfest Weimar. Cinema presentation with blackscreen and German subtitles. 2022: Sonic Matter, Radiophonic Mondays, Zurich. Internet broadcast. 2022: “Ears have Eyes”, Internet broadcast […]
Site specific installation for the sculpture park of the Kunstmuseum Magdeburg. 2 large steel plates with integrated loudspeakers, 2 channel audio and a composition made from recordings of bells permanently damaged in the air raids on Magdeburg during the Second World War. Sounding daily on each hour from 11AM to 10PM Presentations since 2019: Sculpture […]