Electrical Walks – Christina Kubisch (since 2004)

Electrical Walks – Christina Kubisch (since 2004)

Since the end of the 1970s Christina Kubisch works with the system of electromagnetic induction, which she developed from the basic technique to an individual artistic tool. In 2003 she started her research on a new series of works in public space, which trace the...
TON-RAUM TU BERLIN –  Bernhard Leitner (1984)

TON-RAUM TU BERLIN –  Bernhard Leitner (1984)

The «Sound-Space TU Berlin» is a permanent, sound installation located in the main building of the Technical University of Berlin. In a cube-shaped passageway cum room in which three corridors meet, Leitner built a sound-absorbing covering, with 42 hidden speakers...
Music for a Quarry – Walter Fähndrich

Music for a Quarry – Walter Fähndrich

In Music for a Quarry by Walter Fähndrich, clear tones call across the natural amphitheater of the Hoosac Marble Quarry from ten speakers, equally spaced along its circumference, for fifteen minutes of twilight every evening. Working with the latitude and longitude of...
Andrea Polli – Heat and the Heartbeat of the City (2004)

Andrea Polli – Heat and the Heartbeat of the City (2004)

Heat and the Heartbeat of the City (launched on turbulence.org Dec. 1, 2004) is a web site that presents a series of sonifications (musical compositions created by directly translating data to sound) that illustrate these dramatic changes focusing on the heart of New...
Mark Bain and Arno Brandhluber – BUG (2009)

Mark Bain and Arno Brandhluber – BUG (2009)

The new building at Brunnenstraße 9 in Berlin’s Mitte district was recently hailed by Artforum Magazine as “a retroactive manifesto of ’90s-era hypercontextualism” and, more simply, “gorgeous”. What their praise didn’t recognize, however, is that this mixed-use space...