Update / Bells and Cannons

“Bells and Cannons” are wandering around Berlin streets and metro stations. It will be at @silent.green this weekend as a part of “More Strange Things” exhibition.

Bells had set the rhythm of the people for ages. Church bells were the clock for daily life. For centuries bells had been removed from belfries during times of war and melted down for military purposes into cannons. In Germany %40 of the church bells melted into cannons during WWI.
War had seared the human landscape, adding to the radiance of bells an apocalyptic residue of explosion and torment. „Bells and Cannons“ is a generative sound sculpture that uses these sounds from the deep ecology of time, hidden and encoded in the bells.
The sculptural time piece is composed of three large brass discs, offering an infinite sound composition of a speculative weapon which emerges from a bell/cannon transformation.

Produced in the context of “Time Apparatus” seminar by @luizzanotello

Many thanks to Luiz Zanotello, Alberto de Campo and Hannes Hoelzl for their valuable feedbacks!
@newmediaclass_udk @s4ntp_gencomp @udkberlin

production support by @schwarzegauna

photo 1: Ubahn Fehrberliner Platz
Photo 2, 3, 4, 5: Mahall Berlin @ctmfestival @transmediale