in the field: floating and listening, playing and recording

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After two studio days, the artists of friendly soundforms spent two intense days at and with the floating organism(s).

listening at floating
Immersing ourselves into the soundscape of floating.
The floating area from our perspective.
The floating area from our perspective.

We listened to our surroundings and identified all kinds of organisms and their niches (birds, waters, humans, bees, reeds, Neuköllner Oper, to name a few), as well as made and recorded sounds we introduced into the environment by means of mallets as well as our electronic live coding setup.

Playing the wheelbarrows.
Playing wheelbarrows.
The group listening closely and recording a container used for storage at floating.
Closely listening and recording a container used for storage at floating.
Listening to the electricity.
Gently listening to electricity.
Frank recording wind in the reeds.
Frank recording wind in the reeds.

On the second day, we were accompanied by Christian und Kevin from Barner16. They brought their cameras and will do a making-of video of our activities.

Kevin Hamann filming Frank in the field.
Christian Hebel and Kevin Hamann filming us.
Christian Hebel and Kevin Hamann filming us.

Friendly Soundforms is part of TRANSFORM — inklusives Raumlabor, a project of EUCREA funded by Aktion Mensch, Musikfond, Friedrich Stiftung, Mara&Holger Cassens Stiftung, Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, Claussen Simon Stiftung, and Gabriele Fink Stiftung.