Pierre Berthet
Extended Drops
2nd July 2010 - 12th September 2010
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In this work, the Belgian sound artist Pierre Berthet uses special self-built loudspeakers which he refers to as “extended loudspeakers”. These are loudspeaker chassis without a membrane with steel wires attached to them. The loudspeaker’s reverberations are transmitted via the wires to resonating bodies made of tin cans. The resonating bodies are linked in such a way that temporally as well as audially differentiated sounds are projected into the space. In “Extended Drops”, the sounds of water droplets emit impulses and sounds for the network of resonators branched in the space. The analogue droplet sounds and their electronic treatment create a wide rhythmic and audial spectrum. A highly variable, spatial percussion instrument results – an homage to the former function of the space as a water reservoir.