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Nachklang

A site specific installation broadcast from 3 bell towers within the historic centre of the city of Weimar.  Nine different compositions made from recordings of the Buchenwald bell were played 3 times daily for a period of 4 months during the celebrations of Weimar as the European Capital of Cultural 1999. The work was repeated in […]

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Still / Life (Magdeburg)

A site specific installation with 2300 piezo loudspeakers and 8-channel audio for the crypt of the historic cloister within the Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen / Kunstmuseum Magdeburg. Presentations 1996: Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen / Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, within the series Interferenzen  (site specific)

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Klangweg

Installation with 5 greenhouse loudspeaker boxes, integrated mid-range and piezo loudspeakers, 5 motion sensors, computer-controlled MIDI samples and 5-channel audio Presentations 1994: Schloss Neuhaus, Paderborn within the Landesgartenschau Paderborn, 1994 (site specific)

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Brunnen

Installation with 3 blue acrylglas resonators, integrated loudspeakers and 3-channel audio Presentations 2017: Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg, within the retrospective Works with Sound. 2005: Turning Sounds festival, Warsaw. 1997: Dolmabahçe Cultural Centre, Istanbul within the exhibition In Medias Res. 1996: Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg, within the series Interferenzen. 1994: Mozarteum Salzburg within the festival Aspekte Salzburg (under […]

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Stationen

A site specific installation for the 5-story spiral staircase and the bell tower of the Parochialkirche, Berlin. Various loudspeakers, microphones, computer-controlled FFT analysis/translation, midi instruments and multi-channel audio. Loudspeakers were arranged vertically in order of ascending frequency-range from the base of the staircase (subwoofer) into the bell tower (piezos). The overtone chord projected by the […]

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Soundcatchers

Installation for the courtyard for the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. Acrylglas reflectors with integrated microphones and loudspeakers, computer-controlled FFT analysis/translation, midi synthesizer and multi-channel audio. Presentations 1991: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin.

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Soundwalls

3 vertical wooden resonators, metallic paint, 12 integrated transducers, 6 channel audio Presentations 1988: within Berlin Kulturstadt Europas 1988, Kongresshalle / Haus der Kultur der Welt, West Berlin 1988.

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Music for Passageways

Installation with 32 tuned pipes, 32 loudspeakers and 4-channel audio Presentations 1999: within the solo exhibition Works with Sound, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Germany. 1987: Lichthof, TU Berlin Hauptgebäude, West Berlin. 1987: within the exhibition Klanginstallationen, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (GAK), Weserburg, Bremen. 1985: Musique à Tangente, Galerie Tangente, Montréal.

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Music for Environmental Sound Diffusion

Installation with 12 ceiling-mounted loudspeakers, 2 wooden resonators at floor level and one-channel audio Presentations 1984: Galerie Tangente within Musique à Tangente, Montréal. 1984: Foyer of the Hotel Méridien, Montréal (over the foyer loudspeaker system).

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Audio Books

7 books with handwritten texts and integrated piezo loudspeaker elements. Presentations 2017: Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, within “Works with Sound 1984-2019” 2016: Sächsische Akademie der Künste, Dresden, Germany. Group exhibition 2014: Museumsquartier, Wien, Austria.  2005: Bibliothèque Robert Desnos, Paris in collaboration with Instants Chavirés.

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