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sound installation motorized sculptures, resin, metal, brick, cymbals/2025
shown at: Mz*Baltazar's Laboratory curation: Perforatorium (Olivia Jaques & Marlies Surtmann)
supported by: Mz*Baltazar's Laboratory, Land Vorarlberg
photos: Peter Paul Aufreiter
video: Peter Paul Aufreiter
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THEMBETTER is a walk-in soundscape that translates hidden voices into tangible layers of sound through narrative fragmentation and activates it in a loop of decomposition and recomposition. The tactile quality of the sounds is generated by the movement and vibration of the sound sources. The situational composition is preceded by attentive listening to our environment and the ‘chunking’ of this listening experience. These ‘chunks’ of structures of the complex activities of biological, anthropogenic and geophysical processes meet in their translation in space in order to expand the boundaries of one's own body by adopting different auditory perspectives.
"Evamaria Müller creates fragile, repetitive and constantly changing structures in her sound installations. The focus is on the formation of organic materials in interaction with media and mechanical instruments. Levels of sound that are layered into each other, nestled against each other, directed against each other or built on top of each other. One layer is humus for another. Through meticulous listening, we can uncover layers that seem to fit seamlessly into the granulate of this soil of sound."