Immersive Soundinstallation of All:y:Ears serie 2022, 04. –13. november
A composition made of electromagnetic waves. By Katharina Bévand.
Electromagnetic drones and noisy crackles intertwine in space, buzz around. They need no medium to spread, no body: they propagate in a vacuum at the speed of light, regardless of their frequency. Weightlessness. They travel through space. Electromagnetic waves are commonly known as light and follow the laws of optics. Radio and television waves, microwaves, infrared rays,
visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays and gamma rays. We are surrounded by an electromagnetic sea of high-frequency waves, produced by internet masts, mobile phones, laptops, radio, etc. Normally inaudible, they sometimes produce audible interference between systems. They can cause radio interference, interference immunity and interference emissions from equipment are regulated by law, there is a regulation limiting electromagnetic fields and radio equipment. Captured from the inaudible and transmitted into the audible, sonified, this reality becomes tangible and makes an invisible world around us more tangible. Electromagnetic waves are the sound sources in the installation.
Katharina Bévand is a sound artist living in Berlin. She creates site-specific sound installations and sound sculptures and performs with modular synthesizers. She works with processed field recordings, extended recording techniques and the resonance of spaces and objects. She recently received a research grant from the Berlin Senate. In 2017 she was awarded by "bonn hoeren - sonotopia" of the Beethoven Foundation for Art and Culture Bonn and was a board member of the Berlin Society for New Music e.V. from 2018-20. Her work has been exhibited internationally at FK: K IV Festival in Bamberg, LTK4 in Cologne, DARB1718 in Egypt, Madou Sugar Factory Art Triennale in Taiwan, Dystopia Festival for Sound Art in Berlin, and Space21 Festival in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in Northern Iraq, among others. In 2018, she received a fellowship from the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations and the Goethe-Institut Erbil.
Decay is the decay of the atom, the decomposition of metal plates, the death of sounds, the fading of resonance.
Decay deals with radioactive decay processes and extreme periods of time that elude our human perception, lifespan and imagination. The sound sculpture exhibited here is calculated to play for 20,402 years.
Concept and realisation: Paul Hauptmeier | Martin Recker
Initiated and curated by Julian Rieken
Circuits: Victor Mazón Gardoqui
Drawings: Elisabeth Liselotte Kraus
Immersive Soundinstallation of All:y:Ears serie 2022, 04. –13. november
A composition made of electromagnetic waves. By Katharina Bévand.
Electromagnetic drones and noisy crackles intertwine in space, buzz around. They need no medium to spread, no body: they propagate in a vacuum at the speed of light, regardless of their frequency. Weightlessness. They travel through space. Electromagnetic waves are commonly known as light and follow the laws of optics. Radio and television waves, microwaves, infrared rays,
visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays and gamma rays. We are surrounded by an electromagnetic sea of high-frequency waves, produced by internet masts, mobile phones, laptops, radio, etc. Normally inaudible, they sometimes produce audible interference between systems. They can cause radio interference, interference immunity and interference emissions from equipment are regulated by law, there is a regulation limiting electromagnetic fields and radio equipment. Captured from the inaudible and transmitted into the audible, sonified, this reality becomes tangible and makes an invisible world around us more tangible. Electromagnetic waves are the sound sources in the installation.
Katharina Bévand is a sound artist living in Berlin. She creates site-specific sound installations and sound sculptures and performs with modular synthesizers. She works with processed field recordings, extended recording techniques and the resonance of spaces and objects. She recently received a research grant from the Berlin Senate. In 2017 she was awarded by "bonn hoeren - sonotopia" of the Beethoven Foundation for Art and Culture Bonn and was a board member of the Berlin Society for New Music e.V. from 2018-20. Her work has been exhibited internationally at FK: K IV Festival in Bamberg, LTK4 in Cologne, DARB1718 in Egypt, Madou Sugar Factory Art Triennale in Taiwan, Dystopia Festival for Sound Art in Berlin, and Space21 Festival in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in Northern Iraq, among others. In 2018, she received a fellowship from the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations and the Goethe-Institut Erbil.
Decay is the decay of the atom, the decomposition of metal plates, the death of sounds, the fading of resonance.
Decay deals with radioactive decay processes and extreme periods of time that elude our human perception, lifespan and imagination. The sound sculpture exhibited here is calculated to play for 20,402 years.
Concept and realisation: Paul Hauptmeier | Martin Recker
Initiated and curated by Julian Rieken
Circuits: Victor Mazón Gardoqui
Drawings: Elisabeth Liselotte Kraus
