is the label for an instrument designed for intensification and documentation of media sound phenomena. The inter-media installation is based on the interaction of the following components:
1. Sound-Source / Acoustic Environment
Microphones are installed in front of the Theseus Temple in the Viennese Volksgarten to record sounds and noises, which build the basic musical material. Like a Soundobservatory the summer records all the acoustic events in and around the Volksgarten.
2. Sound-Transformation / Infrastructure of the Network
Sound from outside is broadcast to the inside of the Theseus Tempel via internet, layered over the actual sound of the venue, modified and sent back into space. By constantly "summing" up the sounds, the concrete material is pulverized, recycled and reorganised in a different aesthetic context. In this emerging feedback-system information from the "real world" (the urban centre Volksgarten) interacts with the characteristic features of the dataflow of a "virtual world" (e.g. time-delays because of network-pollution)
3. Projection-Room / Resonance-Space Theseus Tempel
The steady changes, caused by the transformer www on the soundstream, can be sensually experienced in here. Space becomes the essential dimension for the music: The aesthetic of the liquid sound-architecture changes the perception of space inside the Theseus Temple and puts the visitor into a high-tension-field of sensual stimuli. On entering the temple, he is diving into a sea of sound immediately, to discover different sound textures (treble end, low end, levels of density) and their fields of resonance, through his movements in space. Each visitor is composing his individual piece of sound: "From place to place he hears (something) different(ly)"
4. Documentation / The Picture as a Collection of Evidence
The routes chosen by the visitor for this sound-expedition are captured and made visible in the entrance/exit area in synch with the flow of the sound-stream. The complex structure of the superimposed traces of all visitors, visually describes the soundscape and delivers an archive of all spatial constellations during the time of the installation.