The relationships between object and sound, movement and space is at the centre point of the "Flying Machines" machines exhibition, which is made up of new installations by the American sound artist Ed Osborn and can be seen at the "singuhr sound gallery in parochial". Osborn uses classic creators of air streams - ventilators - to steer the sound processes. A modest group of these wind machines ("LFO") in the nave of Berlin’s Parochial Church contrasts with the monumentality of the room. Their quiet motions give rise to sounds in space, and in doing so emphasise the relationship between "small" sound creators and "large" architecture. In contrast, three sounding mobiles, "Flying Machines", realise a flowing spatial dynamic in organic sound movements. In "North Machine", a field of ventilators and loudspeakers creates a fluctuating soundscape in a windowless cell in the tower. In the tower stairwell, which connects the exhibition spaces with one another, a sound piece engages the visitor with foreign, apparently bodyless step sequences - "Measure for Measure".

With the support of the Ev. Georgen-Parochialgemeinde, Initiative Neue Musik Berlin, Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Elektronisches Studio der TU Berlin. Special thanks to ContribNet, cyan, among others.
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