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Wanderlust #85: Electromagnetic Spiral & Orbiting Mantra

07 February 2022
  • Experimental
  • Drone
  • Atmospheric
  • Hypnotic
  • Meditative

Electromagnetic Spiral & Orbiting Mantra by Katharina Bévand

The audio archived here is a teaser of the show. For more information and sound samples, visit Katharina’s website https://katharinabevand.com

Electromagnetic Spiral

Composition based on the site-specific soundinstallation for Kunst im Bau – 90 Jahre Haus Des Rundfunks RBB Berlin

Electromagnetic sounds known to cause interference sounds in radio and the clatter of tape machines form a composition that plays on the entire 5-storey stairwell. The architectural spiral is mirrored in the loop of the composition and the tape machine technology. The sounds penetrate the building through the vertically positioned loudspeakers from different floors.

Orbiting Mantra

Orbiting Mantra is a slowly evolving sonic composition, which invites the visitor to orbit around hanging resonating plates, or to stand between them taking a sonic bath. Sound exciters transmit vibration onto the metallic surfaces, enhancing the metallic character of the sound. The composition is made of various sonic parts that inter fade slowly. On the turkish tea trays of special resonant qualities, infinite spirals are drawn, appearing and disappearing with the changing light angle while one moves around. These objet trouvés are liberated from their original serving function becoming own entities. Like the visuals, the sound spins endlessly, and the visitor mirrors with his circular movement the repetition of a spatial infinity. The atmospheric composition expands into the room.

Katharina Bévand is a sound artist based in Berlin. She creates site-specific sound installations, sound sculptures, and performs on modular synthesizers. She works with processed field recordings, extended recording techniques and the resonance of spaces and objects. She recently received a research grant from the Berlin Senate and is part of Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt 2021. In 2017 she was honored by “bonn hoeren – sonotopia” of the Beethoven Foundation for Arts and Culture Bonn and she has been a board member of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik e.V between 2018-20. She exhibited internationally at FK:K IV Festival in Bamberg, LTK4 in Cologne, DARB1718 in Egypt, Madou Sugar Factory Art Triennale in Taiwan, Dystopia Festival for Sound Art in Berlin, and Space21 Festival in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in Northern Iraq, and in the communal Galeries Berlin, among others. In 2018, she received funding from the Institute for Foreign Relations and the Goethe Institut Erbil.

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