Extended drops, 2010
Audio trace of the Maastricht "computerized" version recorded by Patrick Delges:
Vidéo trace of the Koln "uncomputerized"version:
3 other sound examples during the first try-out session in the sistern of the Prenzlauerberg water castle (Singuhr gallery), Berlin here
In this installation appear again special self-built loudspeakers which I refer to as “extended loudspeakers”. These are loudspeaker chassis without membrane with steel wires attached to them. The loudspeaker’s reverberations are transmitted via the wires to resonating bodies made of tin cans.
The resonating bodies are linked in such a way that temporally as well as audially differentiated sounds are projected into the space. In “Extended Drops”, I use the driping principle that i use since mid-eighties: drops fall on suspended tin cans from +- 2m high.
photo: Maertz
but in this installation the sounds of water droplets emit impulses and sounds for the network of resonators branched in the space.
Before hiting the suspended small tin-cans, the drops (water + a little bit of acid) pass through the cut electric cables that go from the amp to the extended loudspeakers and trig input sine waves
A highly variable, spatial percussion and string instrument results, especially when the speed of the drops are modulated by a computer controling the overture of valves.
Although it sounds and looks very different, extended drops was inspired by a description of Arno Fabre’s "conte pour radios et robinets"
Another method to "extend" the drops is to sent their resulting percussive sounds picked up with contact-micr. to extended loudspeakers Drops sound can also trigger other sound sources (sine waves for example)
The first version of extended drops was presented at the Singuhr- Hoergalerie in Berlin. It was helped by the resonance european sound art network, then in Maastricht (Intro) and Kortrijk (klinkende stad)
It benefited from a "SMart" grant, help from WBI and also from the technical, artistic and friendly help of Patrick Delges (crfmw)
More info and listen to some more examples: resonance european sound art network. those were recorded during try outs in the prenzlauerberg water reservoir, Berlin 2010. This work was produced as part of the RESONANCE network, a European collaboration that focuses on the production, the presentation, the documentation and exchange of experience in the field of contemporary sound art. Resonance is suported by:
Interview and photos: here
Photos: R.Maertz
Here is a text by Georg Dietzler (in german) about a "simpler" version that took place in Koln during the fall of 2011:
