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Verdeckte Parallelen (Masked Parallels) Märkisches Museum Berlin, 2004 (Austellung Stare über Berlin, Kurator: Tilman Küntzel) / Kunstverein Ludwigshafen / Galerie im Körnerpark, 2006 / intro in situ, Maastrich, 2007 / Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg / Caputher Schlosspark, 2008 |
Computer programme, amplifier, 4 loudspeakers |
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4. Caputher Schlossnacht, Caputh, 2008 Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, 2008 intro in situ, Maastrich, 2007
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The
human desire to overcome gravity as a bird does is ancient. Numerous fairytales
and stories have been told about a temporary transformation from human
to bird. In the natural sciences, ornithology studies birdlife by identifying
and categorizing these animals based on their appearance, incidence and
vocalization. Birding tours delight bird watchers all over the world.
The sound of a bird’s voice is not always easy to recognize and
mimic, with phonetic descriptions in bird field guides attempting to identify
the bird via its specific sound. The warning signal of a starling, for
example, is a ki-yeck ki-yeck, or it howls much like a short wave on the
radio when searching for a station with a wi-ouu-ii. The sound installation
“Verdeckte Parallelen” takes up this topic and uses phonetic
descriptions to examine the mimicry of the starling. presentation of musical history
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