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Marc BEHRENS was born in 1970, making him the youngest of our participating
artists. But in addition to his sound installations he has already
released a number of solo CD albums and contributed pieces to many
compilation CDs. Most of these pieces are delicate and beautiful works
edited, processed, and finely woven together on hard disc from sound
materials recorded and collected in the field. They are virtual spaces
which provide more concrete and visual experiences of concrete and
real sounds (which nonetheless seem somehow abstract). His contribution
to this exhibition, entitled <Tokyo Circle> is an installation
which attempts to realize these aural experiences through media technology.
Sensors follow viewer movements and soundscapes are played which trace
their trajectories. It uses a sound file linked to the symbolic metaphor
of the circle to create a sense of deja entendu."
As an example of visual experiences mediated by sound one might imagine
taking a trip somewhere and, rather than recording the experience
with a camera or a video, using only audio recording. Listening to
the sounds afterwards memories of scenes and activities come back
much more vividly than they do with photographs or videos. The sound
artist Bernhard G殤ter, whose label "trente oiseaux" released
Behrens' original CD, is known as an artists who uses real sounds
with extraordinary evocative power at extremely low volume to give
his compositions a stronger magnetic energy. Listening to the almost
inaudible, subtle sounds of Behrens' and G殤ter's compositions there
is no mistaking them for ambient music. What they are after is the
strengthening and heightening of perception and consciousness that
comes from fine tuning one's sense of hearing in order to better hear
and enter into the sound.
(HATANAKA Minoru / Assistant Curator, ICC)
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