Update / Bells and Cannons / Glocken und Kanonen

We are looking forward to
#3 of 8
in our exhibition series
8ight

3 acoustic sources

13.-15.06.2024

BELLS AND CANNONS
by Özcan Ertek (TR)
Sound Object

on view:
13.06.,Thursday, 16-20h
14.06., Friday, 16-19h
15.06., Saturday, 14:30-19h

BELLS AND CANNONS by Özcan Ertek (TR) @ozcanertek

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 bell towers during times of war and melted down for military purposes into cannons. 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 encrypted in the bells.

The sculptural time piece is composed of three large brass discs, offering an infinite sound composition of a speculative weapon/instrument which emerges from a bell/cannon transformation.
By focusing on transformation between church bells and cannons, it distributes sounds and voices through the vibrations of the drum bells, transmits sound through and between different symbolic and psychical milieus.

Friday 14.06. will feature the performances of Özcan Ertek (TR) and
Leon Eckard (DT) @l_e_o_o_n_e