Sounds of Home
Sound installations from four corners of the pandemic
from 6th April 2021
As we are getting closer to spring as well as the desired opening after the long lockdown, soundscapes fill the spaces of Collegium Hungaricum Berlin. During the first Lockdown the Hungarian Institution in the German capital announced an open call for collecting field recordings during the first lockdown in order to make a collective soundscape composition. The term soundscape composition was popularised by R. Murray Schafer and it refers to the acoustic environment that we are all composers of.
After having collected a fifteen-hour-long audio material of home soundscapes recorded by smartphones, with the curation and conceptualisation of Endre Vazul Mandli CHB is presenting Sounds of Home, an installation with the sounds of the first lockdown as well as three other audiovisual works related to the pandemic.
In the CHB the current measures determined by the city of Berlin in order to combat the pandemic are applied.
To visit the installation and for further information please register at: buero@hungaricum.de
Exhibiting artists:
Lottie Sebes: http://lottiesebes.com/
Kayla Elrod: https://corlettelrod.wixsite.com/kaylaelrod
Ben Glas: https://www.thankyouforyourunderstanding.com/
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Ben Glas: Score For The Memory Palace / Music For x Spatial Interactions
"Score For The Memory Palace / Music For x Spatial Interactions" is a two part relativistic sound composition, which offers participants innumerable subjective approaches for individual interaction. The first part, "Score For The Memory Palace", is a text based score inspired by the ancient Greek mnemonic device, the memory palace. This score prompts willing participants to compose their own imaginative internal composition, co-opting their own memory as a performative tool. The second part, "Music For x Spatial Interactions", is a relativistic drone made of pure tone standing waves and is inherently interactive via physical movement on the behalf of willing participants. Listeners are encouraged to move through the space, to compose their own perception and experience of the composition.