2019/20 | Audio installation as a recess gong for the Looren school campus in Zürich (Witikon)

In her contribution called „Kaleidophone" Sonja Feldmeier installs a sound sculpture on the Looren school grounds as a signal for recess. At the beginning and end of the breaks, the entire school area is transformed into a spatially immersive world of sound. The buildings are used as instruments as well as entities for reflection and resonance. Different sound intervals are heard throughout the area, staggered in time and space, which call upon the students to go out for recess and then accompany them back in with gesture akin to strokes of wings.

To create the compositional concept the artist worked together with composer and sound designer Vojislav Anicic. In two weeks, sounds of everyday school life were indentified and recorded together with interested students and teachers. Pencil tips, leafing through books, ball games, the noises of writing or stampeding sneakers were combined into rhythms in the recording studio and accompanied with sounds and melodies played by professional musicians. (Katharina Dunst)