"The Punktierte Umgebung (Dotted Surroundings) installation, also conceived
for the Singuhr sound gallery, is mounted on the Parochial Church's
outer facade and taps exactly this area of an aesthetic field that is
determined by perception and surroundings. Modeled on the former Glockenspiel's
automatic mechanism, sounds were played over loudspeakers in seven-and-a-half
minute cycles that swirled around the tower of the church. Shunted to
the rhythmic area all fragmented and transformed, these sounds then created
variable metres that "traced" the entire church building.
In order to create this effect, Dyffort und Driesch installed small piezo
loudspeakers in correspondence with the architectonic structure of the
façade of the church, which emitted repetitive impulses and quiet
clicking sounds here and there. The church as an architectonic body as
well as a functionally anchored building imperceptibly travels closer
into the consciousness. The church's immediate surroundings are
particularly emphasized by the different reflected "sharp"
sounds as a space expanded by the architecture. People passing by the
large church courtyard or the narrow Parochialstrasse hardly perceive
anything out of the ordinary, as the acoustic events of installation and
the everyday surroundings become mixed and almost confused. The temporary
artistic configuration assimilates with the "natural" local
features and becomes a kind of component lecturing on the location."
(positionen, 70, Beiträge zur Neuen Musik, Februar 2007, Melanie Uerlings)
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