silent music
“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. […]
“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 […]
Site specific installation for the foyer of the Luxembourg Philharmonic with 64 mp3-player, 200 piezo loudspeakers and 68 channel audio. Presentations 2020: Foyer of the Luxembourg Philharmonic within the Rainy Days Festival
Site specific installation for the cloister courtyard of the Kunstmuseum Magdeburg with 42 wall-mounted loudspeakers and 16-channel audio. Purchased by the museum in 2020. Presentations 2017: Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, within “Works with Sound 1984-2019” (permanent since 2021)
2 separate wall-mounted loudspeaker installations with a total of 112 loudspeakers and 40-channel audio. Commissioned for the opening of the new Bauhaus Museum, Weimar. Presentations 2019: Bauhaus Museum, Weimar. Exhibition 05.04. to 06.09. 2019