Artists and Students of the University of Applied Arts Vienna: Antenna in the Mud

GUEST ARTIST #3

Artists and Students of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Antenna in the Mud
Interactive Sonic Sculpture of Four Antennas to be Activated by the Visitors

A series of sound pieces will be running, being played in a loop but not heard until a visitor approaches the antennas. These are then activated by the proximity of the human body and as the four antennas are spread throughout the space only with four people it is possible to hear the whole of the four channel pieces.

Interaction is facilitated through theremin-like antennae modules, which are activated by holding a hand in proximity to 3D-printed meteorite-shaped holders. These act as volume control for visitors in the space, allowing participants to modulate the four channel spatial audio pieces.

These compositions are produced by a selection of artists and students of the Angewandte:
Alice Bazzichelli, lutzz&bog, Flynn by Malpractice (Chiara Kristler & Marcin Ratajcyk), Martina R. Fröschl, Mel E. Logan, Klemens Kohlweis, Aeon Gawa (Hartwin Haselbauer) with Otto Rotermundt, MAX HYPER.

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The atmosphere evokes a post-human laboratory nocturne—where humans are activators in their meditative state. The 3D sound specialization moves frequencies through the space, generating narrative sound works that shift between microtonal drones, biophobic textures, and electromagnetic interference patterns. The result is a deep listening experience, immersing the audience in a speculative ecology of sound with video elements of micro worlds to give the audience the pole opposite of the zoomed out meteorite shapes antenna elements.

Visitors become activators and partial composers to a sonic world, where an individual is not enough, a collective of at least four people is needed in order to experience the pieces, alone the individual is only activating a small section of the works. The collective is all.