Breathing Space

2015, sound sculpture.
5,400 dome tweeters, stranded wire, spatial audio system, 8 channel composition
Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany

This sound sculpture, consisting of 8 audio channels, each with 675 loudspeakers as floor-piece, was conceived especially for the exhibition Breathing Space at the Kunstverein Marburg. The composition consists of soundscapes, modulated sounds, and fragments of a sentence: ‘Der Mensch ist der Traum seines Schattens.‘

Pindar (522-445 BC) ‘People are the shadow of a dream.‘
Pythian Ode 8.

Photos © Clara Oppel