as part of FAXEN
Site-specific sound installation, 2015 – 2016
Audio, varying length, multiple versions, speaker, overhead projector, helium-filled balloon, helium gas bottle, video
Dimensions variable
A helium filled balloon equipped with microphones is used to create expansive field recordings of urban areas. This method allows the A helium-filled balloon equipped with microphones is used to create expansive field recordings of urban areas. This method allows the artist collective FAXEN to record multiple acoustic transitions between divergent areas in an urban environment. Sonic zoom-in and zoom-out movements that oscillate between subjective and objective points of view, between actual and abstract and between close by and far away. Arranged as a multi-channel sound installation, ON AIR invites the listener to explore the diverse acoustic topography of a city.
Exhibitions
- Menu LABoratory, Hradec Kralove/CZ, 31.03 – 03.04. 2016
- ON AIR, Science Friction, Copenhagen/DK, 30.10. – 01.11. 2015