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Sound & Visions

mumok Architecture Turns into Giant Resonance Chamber at MuseumsQuartier

The artists Clemens Bacher and Oliver Hangls are standing in front of the mumok.
© Robert Puteanu


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Free Admission!A Performative Sound Tour with CID RIM and Oliver Hangl to Kick Off ESC at the MQ

Under the title Sounds & Visions, the artists CID RIM and Oliver Hangl conceive a performative sound tour in front of and inside the mumok building that allows visitors to experience the museum as an auditory and architectural resonance chamber.

The building’s basalt-lava facade serves as a lithophone and is activated with live sounds by the musician CID RIM. Following the thirty-minute act, visitors enter the building to encounter a sound and speech intervention by the performance artist Oliver Hangl.

Clemens Bacher alias CID RIM made a name for himself internationally with his blend of jazz, electronic music, and club sounds.

Oliver Hangl is performance and media artist and curator. He designates urban spaces as temporary free and experimental zones that must be actively used. 

The project is carried out in cooperation with MuseumsQuartier.

Programme

17:00 & 18:30: SOUND OF WALL: CID RIM
Live Sound-Performance
Concert performance of mumok’s outer and inner facade. As a drummer and electronic musician, CID RIM expands the percussive possibilities of the facade through electronic sound modulation.
1. Live Concert 17:00 (Outdoor, mumok Facade
2. Live Concert 18:30 (Indoor, Level -4)

17:00 – 20:00: Sound and Speech Intervention by Oliver Hangl
Elevator Song Contexts
ESC song lyrics in the mumok elevators – performed live in their original languages

17:00 – 20:00: Catchy Tunes
Acoustic Guerrilla Intervention in the Exhibitions
Following a precise action plan, activists mingle with visitors, humming, whistling, or singing melodies that lodge themselves as infinite loops in the minds of unsuspecting listeners.

mumok

Gray 3D site plan of the Museumsquartier Wien with the area marked in red at the location of the mumok
© MuseumsQuartier Wien