Freya Hattenberger & Peter Simon – presents STRING THEORY
Talk and sounds from Les Éclairs and other projects.
ON 674FM at FUNKT Sessions 08.11.2022, 16:00 CET
FUNKT sessions is a radio format with electronics and sound art from cologne
every 2nd & 4th Tuesday 16-18 h @674.fm
and every 1st Thursday 19-21 h Radio Studio Néau / Eupen @
studioneau.be
www.gerngesehen.de/funkt/
Freya Hattenberger and Peter Simon have been cooperating in joint sound art and performance projects since 2008.
They have long been concerned with the interaction between the audible and the visible – as well as the invisible side of architecture.
On the one hand, the project “MEANDER TAPES – Tender Sounds For Brutalist Architecture” takes up the character of sounds floating around in space. He also refers to the meander as an ornament, which first appears as a structural architectural element in the form of friezes. She is interested in the contradiction between the rigid, massive, hard materiality of concrete and the fluid sound that fills every form. Sound is the medium that adapts to the shape and structure of the space, describing it, bringing it to life and defining a new dimension. The building is their instrument. When they are in this resonance space, they become sound generators – and thus part of the instrument.
Another work they will present is “IHNAHE EXHALE.” Here, bioacoustic methods make the actions of microbes audible, with which they enter into an artistic dialogue. The sonic result in turn influences the sonified processes themselves, evoking deeply felt respect for all that is alive. The work “Terra Incognita” can also be heard in this context. Here, sounds produced directly in a natural environment meet the inhabitants of the habitat. Various moments of irritation arise in this dialogue.
In the project STRING THEORY they explore the interspatial and interpersonal.
The thematic focus of their live set is the interaction and mutual influence of scientific knowledge and acoustic perception.