Glocken und Kanonen / Mahalla, 2023

Sound Installation
Bell, metal contains large amounts of copper and tin

For centuries bells had been removed from belfries during times of war and melted down for military purposes into cannons. "Glocken und Kanonen” are sounds from a deep-time ecology hidden and encrypted within bells in Germany. The sculptural timepiece is composed of three large brass discs, offering an infinite sound loop of a speculative weapon which emerges from a bell/cannon transformation. A different way to think about the passage of time. In parallel to today's urban/rural soundscapes, the piece holds within sound and aspect of long gone past. It explores a cyclical historical phenomenon linking the fallout of man-made disasters.