TONSPUR_expanded: Vom Klang der Kunst, The Sound of Art

What the Wiener MuseumsQuartier lacked was a clock. Accordingly, q21 artist in residence has now completed one for the TONSPUR_passage: the French, Paris-based artist and musician with Portugese roots, Davide Balula (*1978 in Annecy/F). The timepiece adopts the form of a 12-hour realtime loop and was completed with the support of Norbert Math and Peter Szely (programming). Called The Endless Pace, the sounds emitted for the visually challenged at pelican crossings (from PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled) are to make the inexorable progress of time audible throughout the long winter. The sounds are fed through the eight channels of the sound system, following the progress of imaginary clock hands and harmonising time with the space. The result is a fascinating and interestingly abstract temporal arrangement, an experience in realtime. [g.w.] >>> Save the date • TONSPUR_expanded: Ouvertüre! • Exhibition at q21/Freiraum • 11.1.–24.2.2008.