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Klangbojen
Site-specific intermedia installation of sound buoys, sound and light-emitting floating objects, 2003 / 2007
Intermedia installation, consisting of eight floating sound and light objects positioned in relation to
their architectural and room-acoustic surroundings on a surface of water.
Presentations:
1. Klangbojen (Gutenbrunn)- Gutenbrunn (Lower Austria) - July 2003
2. Klangbojen (Tulln) - Tulln (Lower Austria) - August 2003
3. Klangbojen (Donaueschingen) - Festival Donaueschinger Musiktage, Germany - October 2007
Klangbojen (Donaueschingen) is featured in Gal's Book & DVD video Zwischenbrücken, edition spce | Gromoga, Austria 2015.
Klangbojen has been published as part of Bernhard Gal's Book & audio CD 'Installations', Kehrer Verlag / Gromoga, 2005.
Video documentation (2003) |
Video excerpt 2007 (Vimeo) |
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| Eight floating sound and light objects are positioned in relation to their architectural and room-acoustic surroundings on a surface of water. Each of the Klangbojen (“sound buoys”) holds a loudspeaker and a light source; sequencing software creates choreographed constellations of sound and light. In the realization for Gutenbrunn, blue and green buoys are positioned in a spiral whose center is a white buoy. In Tulln, two green and blue light curves are placed in correspondence to the fork of a river; their intersection is a white buoy. In “scenes” and motion sequences, various spatial constellations (for example, curve 1, curve 2, sequences with 1, 2, 3, or 4 buoys, only blue or only green buoys, etc), are made visible and audible. Bernhard Gal created a 45-minute composition of concrete sound recordings and synthetic sound material for these sound objects. Each buoy is assigned a frequency from two eight-tone scales; the combinations of light objects are mirrored musically in spatially dispersed combinations of intervals. Additionally, concrete sound recordings (birdsong, insects, church bells) are interwoven in the composition, fusing sounds that could originate in the site’s natural soundscape with the real surrounding sound environment. Abstract single tones amplify specific frequency ranges within the concrete sounds, and “foreign” tones give rise to new sound combinations.. |
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| Klangbojen
(Gutenbrunn / Tulln), 2003 |
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| ..Artistic concept and realization: Bernhard Gal | Design and construction of sound buoys: P. Michael Schultes | |
| Audio- and electrical engineering: Martin Murauer | Supported by Musik aktuell 2003. | |
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| Klangbojen
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| .Artistic concept and realization: Bernhard Gal | Commissioned by SWR - Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007 | |
| Design and construction of objects: Goetz Dihlmann | Supported by the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme | |
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