“34 Turns” is the final large-scale installation project by artist Terry Fox, who died in October 2008 and whose works straddling sculpture and sound gave significant momentum to sound art. With “34 Turns”, Fox developed an installation that relates the water reservoir’s maze-like vaulted architecture to the famous labyrinth at the Chartres Cathedral with its 34 turns. Simple metal trays are installed in the 34 individual chambers of the reservoir’s outer ring that contain course salt crystals. Imperceptibly and slowly, they bind the humidity released into the air. This transformation process “at the threshold of audibility” is accompanied by real sounds and noises that are carried from the urban surroundings into the interior chamber at the centre of the water reservoir and then unfurl from the centre of the vault as a fine acoustic wave in the space. “34 Turns” is a slow and poetic convergence on a space and its associative potential.

Realisation: Marita Loosen and Carsten Seiffarth