Permanent Presentation, December 5-8, 2019

Ulrich Eller

About Silence/ soloistic — Sound Sculpture

Opening: December 5, 2019, 19:00, echoraum

 

[Ulrich Eller: About Silence/ soloistic (excerpt) | photo: U. Eller (VG Bild-Kunst)]

About Silence/ soloistic

Typically, speakers are used to make something audible and give life to something otherwise unheard. For this piece, I use an especially large speaker, which traditionally emits an extremely loud bass. In this case, its purpose is neither high volume nor the sound pressure level, but rather it is meant to showcase silence either as an interpreted form or an imagined visibility.

The frequencies emitted by the speaker is so low that they are inaudible to our ears and can solely be traced by the slow up and down movement of the speakers’ membrane. These slow movements are the kinetic source for this piece.

The pulse of the membrane is visible via the pile of white down feathers covering the speaker. Very slowly, it lifts and lowers the fragile form of feathers. This subtle action, which only reveals itself after close observation, happens completely in silence.

[Ulrich Eller]

Ulrich Eller

(German only)

Ulrich Eller, geb. 1953 in Leverkusen ist ein Klangkünstler und gelegentlicher Kurator und Autor. Er lehrt als Professor seit 2004 Klanginstallation und Klangskulptur an der HBK Braunschweig. Ausstellungstätigkeit seit 1981. Ulrich Eller lebt in Norderheistedt/ Dithmarschen.

http://www.ulricheller.de