Michael Vorfeld & Hans Tammen: Lightbulbs In Space

Michael Vorfeld and Hans Tammen’s collaborations go back to the early 90s, where they played in Jon Rose’s documenta IX orchestra in Kassel together. Today, Michael Vorfeld’s sounds are generated by different light bulbs and actuating electric devices, and the rhythmic variety of the flickering and pulsing lights is directly transformed into a comprehensive and microcosmic electro-acoustic world of sound. Using Harvestworks’ new 8-channel sound cube (with 4 speakers each situated on floor and ceiling), Hans Tammen’s Prozesshansl software moves these sounds in three dimensions to create fragile and contrastive soundscapes surrounding the audience.