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Music and Conservatory & Performing Arts, Creative Arts and Design

Pendulum – an Interactive Sound Installation

When:

28 August - 30 August 2025

School:

Berlin Summer University of the Arts

Institution:

Berlin University of the Arts

City:

Berlin

Country:

Germany

Language:

English

Credits:

1 EC

Fee:

380 EUR

Interested?
Pendulum – an Interactive Sound Installation

About

Referring to Steve Reich's feedback idea of Pendulum Music (1968) Pyras and Weise transfer the possibilities of movement and sound to space. We work with the interplay of body and object in space, the rhythmic shifts and the in-betweenness of expectation and silence.

Pendulum acceleration reversal point, tipping point, standstill

W h a t I n t e r e s t s y o u a b o u t p e n d u l u m ?

In the audible quality of sound?

in the quality of movement in your body?

in the phenomena of thinking?

The frequency?

The correspondence?

The superimposition?

The interference?

The shift?

How does the inner period of the pendulum come into contact with your body?

How does the space of movement come into contact with your inner listening?

How does your perception of space influence your playing with the sound objects?

How does the periodic movement of the sound objects come into contact with mobile things?

Which experience of movement creates a sound?

Which experience of sound creates movement?

We will research this and engage in a performative exchange

Course leader

Dorothea Weise and Olaf Pyras

Fee info

Fee

380 EUR

Interested?

When:

28 August - 30 August 2025

School:

Berlin Summer University of the Arts

Institution:

Berlin University of the Arts

Language:

English

Credits:

1 EC

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