Klanginstallation SUMMIT

Sound installation SUMMIT

I am a musician.

A singer, to be precise, a classical singer.

I am used to expressing myself in beautiful tones.

I have learned to interpret and, above all, to do so as correctly and beautifully as possible.

Now I lean out of the window and listen to the bees buzzing.

Listen and want to join in.

Tuning into the natural song of the bees.

Sing along and vary and bring in your own.

What if I lose my balance and fall into someone else's thing?

To a place where I have nothing to say as a musician, nothing to sing as a singer?

What if the bees leave their hive, fly around my head, swarm out and I am left in an empty sound space?

What if I reach the limits of my discipline and then lean out too far?

Sound installation SUMMIT

I am a musician.

A singer, to be precise, a classical singer.

I am used to expressing myself in beautiful tones.

I have learned to interpret and, above all, to do so as correctly and beautifully as possible.

Now I lean out of the window and listen to the bees buzzing.

Listen and want to join in.

Tuning into the natural song of the bees.

Sing along and vary and bring in your own.

What if I lose my balance and fall into someone else's thing?

To a place where I have nothing to say as a musician, nothing to sing as a singer?

What if the bees leave their hive, fly around my head, swarm out and I am left in an empty sound space?

What if I reach the limits of my discipline and then lean out too far?

SUMMIT is the name of the sound installation and is a sounding bee hive that the listener can pull over his or her own head. In this way, the listener is immersed in the hidden sound world of the bees, penetrates the unheard space of a state, suddenly perceives human voices and can join in the singing himself. In this way, the listener also becomes a singer and, like the bees, moves between the inner world and the outer space.

SUMMIT was shown as part of the 2013 diploma exhibition of the Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK, on the occasion of the final theses of the Master of Arts in Transdisciplinarity.

Further exhibitions: 2013 Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FIBL, 2014 Beekeeping Museum Grüningen, 2019 Environmental Festival Kloten.

Those involved in the project:

Beat Hofmann, concept, composition and vocals
Andrew Phillips, sound engineering and sound design
Effi Tanner, Electronics
Beat Krapf, Film

Press: Article in the Limmattaler Zeitung, 11.6.2013 by Alfred Borter

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