Permanent Presentation, December 5-8, 2019
Typically, speakers are used to make something audible and give life to something otherwise unheard. For this piece, I use an especially large speaker, which traditionally emits an extremely loud bass. In this case, its purpose is neither high volume nor the sound pressure level, but rather it is meant to showcase silence either as an interpreted form or an imagined visibility. The frequencies emitted by the speaker is so low that they are inaudible to our ears and can solely be traced by the slow up and down movement of the speakers’ membrane. These slow movements are the kinetic source for this piece. The pulse of the membrane is visible via the pile of white down feathers covering the speaker. Very slowly, it lifts and lowers the fragile form of feathers. This subtle action, which only reveals itself after close observation, happens completely in silence. [Ulrich Eller]
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