Sonambiente (part 2)

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Sonambiente, the festival for hearing and seeing, took place in Berlin over the past few weeks and ended on Sunday. It was the second edition of Sonambiente, the first one was ten years ago. I wish they won't wait too long to come up with a new edition because the quality of this one was remarkable. Here's two last examples:

In à voir en silence (to be seen in silence)­, by Robin Minard, consists of delicate and beautiful compositions of handmade papers with piezo loudspeaker elements, an audio CD and a display box. The thin piezo loudspeaker elements and their associated wires are integrated directly into the paper at the papermaking stage. The speaker elements are arranged in plant-like forms.

Achim Wollscheid's Inlet/Outlet installation was one of my favourite pieces at the festival. Very easy to understand, not original in its concept but the experience was supremely playful and poetic. You enter a large room on the first floor of the magnificent Old Polish Embassy, big windows cover one its walls, outside it's sunny, tourists are talking and having a stroll on Unter den Linden. The way you move across the room interacts with the windows. They open and close gracefully according to your movements.