Halberstadt (dpa/sa) - Can you make time audible and visible? Answers to this question are provided by the sound installation "Decay", which is unique in the world according to the organizers and is being performed in Halberstadt on the occasion of the 110th birthday of composer John Cage (1912-1992). After the vernissage on Monday, it can be viewed and experienced in the Taubenturm at the former St. Burchardi Monastery until October 2nd. The organ piece ORGAN²/ASLSP ("As Slow aS Possible") by Cage, which is set to last 639 years, is performed in the building. It started on September 5, 2001 with a hiatus.
The project, realized by the multimedia artists Paul Hauptmeier and Martin Recker, feeds and changes from radioactive data. The artistic concept is about composing with atomic decay. It's about sensor-based composition and multi-sensory perception, it said. Visitors see a stele almost two meters high and can hear sounds when crossing the acoustic field. These are created by released water droplets that create sounds on small metal plates. The installation is constantly changing, it said.
The sound installation "Decay" is part of the current IV. MKH Biennale for contemporary art in Halberstadt and is part of the "Impuls" festival for new music in Saxony-Anhalt.
