an interactive sound installation
close| distant is a requiem to the Covid19 Pandemic and expresses the wish to hold and comfort someone in mourning. The piece is a walk-in sound installation based on the sonic instrument proximity organ, which combines pipe organ and Theremin and was created for this installation. It consists of 8 interactive zinc pipes, that are spread throughout the room. Those pipes are sound generators and sensors for proximity at the same time.
collaborative musical improvisation
Visitors find them selves in a collaborative musical improvisation and are invited to explore the sound and noise possibilities of the organ pipes fed with various amounts of wind. A distant position sends a small amount of air which creates soft overtones, fffffrrrrs, humming and hissing. Closer contact produces a full note sound. Additionally to the full note sound, elicited by closeness, a steady and diligent contact is followed by chords that sum up to a drone.
people involved
The realization of close| distant and the proximity organ startet in 2021 as a collaboration of Heike Waldner-Kaltenbrunner and Mathias Lenz and was furhermore realised from 2022 – 2023 in Vienna, Berlin and Linz with the help of: Oliver Stotz, Walther Vonbank, Sukandar Kartadinata, Frank Dietrich, Marcus Zepp and Boris Shershenkov.
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SKE-Fonds, Stadt Wien, BMKÖS, Otto-Mauer Fonds, Vonbank-Orgelbau.
Funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM)
Some picutes of the pre-presentation in Dez. 2022:
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