Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec - virtual mirror - sound
Virtual Mirror - "Sound" is a sound intervention, which listens to ambient sound of a specific interior or exterior space, analyses it, and then tries to imitate and emit that sound back into the space. The intervention provides the space with ears, which enable the architecture to actively listen to and then "consciously" rearticulate its own ambient sound. It is a process of a space digesting its own sound and then voicing it back into itself - a process of articulating awareness of its (space's) own presence.
Two people are listening to the small and quiet ambient sounds of Deichmanske library and are trying to imitate those sounds with their voices. They are moving around the library and focusing on the quietest of the sounds, which usually escape our attention, but are nevertheless present there. The buzz of neon lights, the sound of turning pages, the sound of somebody typing on the computer, door close - door open, an unidentified hum ... This intervention is a first experimental attempt, trying to consciously articulate ambient sounds of a public space.
Performed at Deichmanske Library Grunerløkka, September 19, 2009, with Agnes Hvizdalek and Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec .
