PROBEBÜHNE KORNHAUSTHEATER 1.8.- 9.8.'98
NORBERT MATH/WOLFGANG TEMMEL
"Symphony of daily life"

back to german version

Everything acoustical is music. Whether this is true depends on an individual's tolerance. As human beings, each of us contributes to an impressive "symphony of daily life" by producing sounds and noises with every movement we make. In the acoustic setting which permanently surrounds us, we play both an active and a passive part, i.e. we are performers and listeners simultaneously. At the very instant I am writing this text, I produce noises by typing on the keyboard of my computer; I am also listening to music on the radio; the door to the room where I am sitting is open and so sounds enter from outside, primarily from passing vehicles, although in-between a broad array of noises from the neighborhood is perceptible: voices, footsteps, etc.

As an interactive medium, everyday acoustics are not actually perceived consciously; we select from our surroundings what we want or need to hear, we oscillate between the extreme of ignoring sounds to over-indulging ourselves in them, i.e. hearing more than our fill, the acoustic climax. We constantly move back and forth between these poles - for the ear cannot be turned off like a machine. We never hear NOTHING. When it happens to be so silent around us that there is nothing to hear, then we hear ourselves, our pulse, our breath. There is always something there that can be and is heard. To perceive the world acoustically appeals to the imagination. Through my fantasy, acoustic spaces form a virtual and unique setting which I am able to constantly control and direct with the mixer of my own volition.


WOLFGANG TEMMEL "Arbeiten in Ton"
WOLFGANG TEMMEL, HELMUT MARK / Kunstradio Archiv
WOLFGANG TEMMEL / "Stille Post"
WOLFGANG TEMMEL "Albertina"
SODOMKA/BREINDL und N.MATH "The Future of Memory"
SODOMKA/BREINDL und N.MATH "State of Transition"
WOLFGANG TEMMEL "Am Arsch der Welt"
go to ---> RUPERT HUBER,ANDREA SODOMKA; NORBERT MATH "Camouflage"
go to ---> SODOMKA, BREINDL, MATH "Embedded Systems"