Diodenzwitschern

»Diodenzwitschern« is Timo Kahlen’s proposal for a permanent sound installation in public space: consisting of a site- specific four channel audio composition with sculptural, ring-shaped speaker elements encircling the stems and branches of trees in proximity to the Skulpturenmuseum in Marl. Intimate sounds, based on the utterances of a nightingale recorded directly on site, permutate from speaker to speaker, from tree to tree. The song of the local nightingale - a bird known for its amazing ability to imitate complex sounds of its immediate environment - has been dissected, reorganized and carefully reshaped, creating a soundscape that seems synthetic and mechanic, yet strangely represents and refers to its origin in nature. The proposal, presented to the jury of the German ‘ Sound Art Prize 2006’, is a generative, virtual model of the installation. It‘s variable acoustic composition is generated - always live and differing - as the mouse cursor moves across, pauses or clicks at the touch-sensitive surface of the consecutive visual projections. Originally published at http://www.staubrauschen.de/dioden/