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22/5/2008

Three exhibitions

Singuhr - Horgalerie, Berlin

Aernoudt Jacobs
Echolocation

“Echolocation” is centred around the complex acoustic relationships in the inner part of the Large Water Reservoir’s concentric ring architecture. Subwoofers give the architecture variable tonal colourations in the individual rings that are counterpointed by rotating high range notes. Accompanied only by selected light sources, the visitors use special detectors that recapture the functional principles of an echo-sounder that help them navigate through the darkened labyrinth. Acoustic signals that are reflected from the surrounding architecture shed light on the individual location and consolidate into a constantly changing sound space.

Aernoudt Jacobs, born in 1968, lives and works as a composer and sound artist in Brussels. Field recordings play a significant role in many of his installations – sounds that are separated from their original context and reworked to create new relationships and contexts. Perceptive phenomena and cognitive processing of sounds often take centre stage.

opening: 23rd May 2008 at 6.00 p.m.
long night: 13th July 2008 until 12.00 p.m.

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Ulrich Eller

Forty identically constructed snare drums hang individually at face level on thin steel cords propped on circular wall positions along the architecture’s rhythmic pillars. All of the drums resonate the sound of short chalk strokes via inbuilt loudspeakers, similar to a quick writing process. The interaction results in a staccato-like, coincidental dialogue form, a “conversation” among the drums in different moods, wherein the sound backdrop permanently alters between the original sound of the recording and the typical resonating sound of the snare drum.

Ulrich Eller, born in 1953, studied at the HDK, Berlin. Since 1981, Eller has been working in the border-crossing genre of installative sound art. His artistic works have been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions. Since 2004, he has been a professor of sound sculpture/sound installation at the HBK Braunschweig. He lives in Norderheistedt.

opening: 23rd May 2008 at 6.00 p.m.
long night: 13th July 2008 until 12.00 p.m.

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Akio Suzuki

In the public space around the water tower square, Japanese artist Akio Suzuki presents a sound installation that is focused on listening to everyday situations. “oto-date NA GI SA” are not installed loudspeakers in a public space but special pictographically marked audial points located around the neighbourhood – places with extraordinary acoustic and atmospheric features that invite the visitor to listen. By stepping on the nine white markings, the visitor experiences the artists’ selected audial positions. This installation, a singuhr-sound gallery contribution to the Berlin “ohrenstrand.net” instrumental New Music project, which continues through 14 September, will be opened with a performance by Junko Wanda on Saturday, 24.05 at 6 p.m. as part of the “HouseMusik” festival.

Akio Suzuki, born in 1941, already began his "Self-Study-Events" in the 1960s; he spent years as a sound researcher investigating locations in nature and architectural spaces for their sound qualities. He researches places by creating a topography of sound based on the principle of call and echo. Since the 1970s, he has been holding performances using self-built echo instruments. Suzuki lives in the countryside near the Japanese ocean.

opening: 24th May 2008 at 6.00 p.m.

singuhr - hörgalerie
Danziger Straße 101Berlin

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