Frederike Moormann

Rattling Landscapes, Humming Motors

Engines hum. Machines clatter. Voices whisper, sing, hum and tell their car stories. The immersive interior audio walk explores the sonic traces of the automotive industry in Chemnitz. Between intimacy and industrial heritage, between memory and the present.

Chemnitz's industrial past is marked by historical ruptures – National Socialism, the GDR, reunification – and at the same time by continuities in work and identity. The car is an intimate place of personal affection and at the same time integrated into large-scale industrial processes.

Starting from the local environment – in particular a nearby engine factory – the audio walk links personal memories and work biographies with binaural sound experiences and spatial navigation of the visitors through the space.

Through a positioning system and headphones, visitors experience a virtual sound reality. How does this connect with the physical space and their own movements? What happens when sounds emerge from the invisible? And how do real objects influence the experience of virtual sound spaces? The project is also an artistic exploration of these questions.

A fragmentary, composable and walk-in archive of car stories.

TRACKING SYSTEM Pinpoint

PROGRAMMIERUNG & KONZEPT embeat

KONZEPT, RECHERCHE & KOMPOSITION Frederike Moormann, Lefteris Krysalis & Diana Karle

SPECIAL THANKS to VW Motorenwerke Chemnitz, Industriemuseum Chemnitz and Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Chemnitz

-> FUNKEN Academy Ausstellung “Currents”
-> Ausstellung auf der Website der Kulturhauptstadt Chemnitz