SolarSonical Insects (2012) – ‹SA/JO› Sabine Schäfer / Joachim Krebs

Eine begehbare MikroKlang- FarbLicht-EreignisSphäre (An enterable microSound colorLight event sphere)
audio-video installation
1-channel video, 2-channel audio played through 5 loudspeakers, 10’35″ (loop)
data conversion of NASA images of the sun: Dr. Davina Markiewicz-Innes and Borut Podlipnik, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) Katlenburg-Lindau
data transfer: Sebastian Nagel (KIT)
animation: Moritz Büchner (ZKM | Institute for Visual Media)

Sabine Schäfer

* 1957 in Karlsruhe (DE), lives in Karlsruhe

Joachim Krebs

*1952 in Karlsruhe (DE), lives in Karlsruhe

“The insect is closer, better able to make audible the truth that all becomings are molecular!”
(G. Deleuze)

7,200 NASA satellite pictures of the SUN are accelerated, animated at freely varying speeds of 10 to 50 pictures per second. (Ultrasound-)microphone recordings of INSECTS are acoustically decelerated and transposed into the human audible range by means of procedures specially developed by the artists.

Through reducing-shortening ACCELERATION of the infinitely long durations of the sun, the INVISIBLE becomes VISIBLE and, through enlarging-extending DECELERATION of the infinitely short durations of the insects, the INAUDIBLE becomes AUDIBLE.
Thus, the more TIME manages to transform itself somewhat into a SONIC imagined all-enveloping COLORLIGHT-resonance-BODY of “sun”, the more intensively the molecular-acoustic vibrations of the insect sounds and noises transmute into a SHINING imagined all-enveloping MICROSOUND-resonance-SPACE.

The insects are transformed into continuously oscillating “solar” instruments, played by the LIGHT of the sun, with which they are communicating!

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Sound sequence: SolarSonical Insects