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ANTONIO DE LUCA
The work documented here, presented in Waldkunstpfad - Kreislauf und Systeme, an event curated by Ute Ritschel who had held in Darmstadt in August 2008, is part of a sound research on the relationship between matter, form and space, and experienced in different contexts since 1995.
attention to the place and its acoustic characteristics and the spatial dimension of such unprecedented opportunity to inhabit the place, to perceive the flow and energy that animate it, to establish a deep relationship with it. We
transformed Ludwigshohturm, a place dedicated to the vision,
in a "listening space" that invites visitors to enter into a deep relationship with the place, to inhabit exploring its acoustic qualities.
a formal level, the action takes the two main strains of the tower building, the verticality and circularity, structural elements that back visually and acoustically in the job set up inside.
Two essential movements are in fact behind the operation of the sound installation, a vertical, since the water that flows through thin cotton thread through the air column of the tower and a ring given by the rotating disc of iron, two movements "Generative", which are primordial manifestation of the rhythm and flow. Acoustically
work is characterized by the presence of two "sound figures"
a foreground structure is given by the percussive rhythm of the drops of water that has a high variability of combinations and develop a harmonic progression that becomes increasingly dominant, the other, in the background, is given by the structuring of harmonic cycles that sedimentation in relation to space and its acoustic qualities make up a flow of sound in the making, in which the listener is called to a new and profound listening experience.
cycles and systems, we proposed a interactive sound action that includes the involvement of visitors in the activation of the system that allows operation of the installation of sound.
water in a container 60 liter located on top of the tower, having made its way along the threads of cotton, sending him falling on the iron disk in resonance, is recovered and drained into another container 60 liter located at the entrance of the tower.
Here the visitor can fill bottles and supported by detailed instructions, turn on the sound installation individually.
GREAVES MARIO
Ludwigshoe Imagine the tower as a column 28 meters high that connects earth to heaven. Through its
formed by a spiral staircase of 99 steps leads to the highest point of the forest as a reward for having a 360 degree view over the whole territory. Our project
Tower Sonora wanted to give added value to the particularity of this place, creating noise originated from two cycles of natural elements: air and water.
Outside the tower, a system of Aeolian harps made with nylon cords, wood, plastic bottles, it makes the audible sound fascinating in its unpredictable wind blowing.
Inside, a metal disk is placed at the base and the center of the spiral staircase, a few drops of water fall from the top of the tower
slipping on cotton threads to fall on the disk and produce a series of harmonics. Through this conversation sound
the tower becomes a place of hearing and sound production.
This was deepened during the symposium with a variety of performances and workshops aimed at visitors to the tower, children in particular, have experienced first hand the ability to produce sounds through the use of primitive tools such as animal horns, shells , buzzers etc.. or create new tools with poor materials or recovery as plastic tubing or PVC.
Antonio De Luca and Mario Greaves
photo of Bernd Lehmler
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