How One Speaks in Copper-Tongues, 2024
Time-framed immersive electroacoustic installation of the prototyped omnidirectional sound system | Research presentation
Duration: 1 hour | Activated and deactivated by the artist
M Turbine Hall of Klaipėda Energy power plant, Danės g. 8
They try talking, we just listen.
Prototyped sound transducers communicate to a something that floats above, stops, moves down, to the river, into emptiness then back. They are stuck. They accumulated way too much. Up, down, river, void and back.
In the Turbine Hall of Klaipėda Energy you may experience illustrative principles of electromagnetism, as presented work uses transformation of electricity into a working sound material. The transducers constructed by the artist are unprotected and not amplified, in a way they are bodies that try to communicate with turbogenerators or to recreate and play a music piece that was created for this system of twenty oscillators. Installation can be experienced in the old premises of Klaipėda thermal power plant, which will be opened to visitors specifically for this occasion, to present the result of conducted research.
Tata Frenkel is an artist-researcher working in the fields of electroacoustics and education, and a thereminist. Within her artistic practice, Tataexplores unseen arts, including electrical potentials of a human, presentation of methods through educational work, storytelling through ethereal, talking radio bodies, performativity and physics of communication, and a constant prototyping of electroacoustic systems based on collaboration with an electrical technology.
Organiser: Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre.
Funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Klaipėda City Municipality.