Frederike Moormann
SOUND
A Lament for the Car
1–3 February
ZiMMT | Torgauer Str. 80 | 04318 Leipzig
36-channel sound installation
An ensemble of human voices sings what can be heard inside a car. The engine rumbles and hums. The electronics whir. The indicator ticks. Perhaps a drive through the neighbourhood. Are we in a memory? Then, the car accelerates, the interior of the car opens up, crashes, crumbles, flies apart. What remains is acoustic dust and a lament.
A Lament for the Car is an open artistic exploration of how we might mourn the car, the car as something has inscribed itself into our bodies, something deeply interwoven with our lives – in our belief in progress through technology, in industries, workplaces, everyday rhythms, urban architectures and landscapes.
The lament explores the hybrid car-human and its hybrid song between lament and machine sound. Sometimes very light and almost ridiculous. Sometimes a little eerie and oppressive. The song moves through the space. The choir is a machine that decomposes itself and then reassembles itself, reforming itself in a mixture of the ancient and the future.
The work was a 36-channel sound installation with a listening environment and performative activation by a live choir. When listening to the binaural mixdown excerpt, headphones are recommended in order to hear the spatial movement.
Choir Voices – Agustin Genoud, Barnabas
Herrmann, Katarina Rasinski, Christian Kesten,
Walburga Walde, Ute Wassermann
Live Choir Live-Gesang – Barnabas Herrmann, Doris Moormann-Goltz, Irene Nenoff, Elisa Nottrott, Chara Yiannou
Stage design collaboration – Laura Immler
Mixing collaboration – Lefteris Krysalis
Thanks – Nikos Arvanitis, Carola Bauckholt, Felix
Deufel, Joyce Moore, Heinrich Moormann, Doris
Moormann-Goltz, Henriette Theurich, TWIKX
Theaterwerkstatt, Angelika Waniek, Clemens von
Wedemeyer
With the kind support of – Frauenförderfonds der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Freundeskreis der HGB, Joyson Safety Systems