melt

(2009)
6 Channel Sound Composition
Premiere at “International Stage Workshop for Dance”, Graz.
Installation at Chargesheimer-Grant Exhibition, November 2009 at BBK Cologne

The whole piece was developed from a single track of recorded melting ice.

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A piezo-pickup was put into a plastic bowl, which was filled with water and stored inside a freezer.
After 24 hours the frozen cube was taken out.
The XLR-cable was plugged into an audio interface and the crackling, melting ice recorded for one hour.

The basic idea was, to compose a sculptural multichannel piece, that uses the process of melting, changing from solid to liquid, as a praradigm for its overall form.

The sound material was processed over a period of two months with diverse software tools - and then composed and arranged in space. No additional sounds where used.

In the beginning the audience sits in a static condition in which relations between fixed points in space are established.
These tangents describe cracks (from A to B) or at least spatial entities that form unstable structures within a given set of coordinates.

Through rhythmical changes and pitch variations the static scene transforms into a deformation, dialogs between smaller entities are developed, tangents become fields.

In the end the whole scenery floats around the listener in long, slowly evolving waves towards oblivion, dissolving in space.