Exhibitions

FULDA - 18. Februar 2021 • 20:00 h and online

Exhibition
18. Februar - 4. March 2021
daily 10 - 12 and 14 - 17 Uhr

Michaelskirche
Michaelsberg 1
36037 Fulda

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The diocese of Fulda invited artists to present pictorial and sound works from their own workspaces during a service on Ash Wednesday. A total of 38 pictorial objects and about 20 sound works have come together in this way and now enter into a relationship with the space of St Michael's Church. The composer and sound artist Wingel Pérez Mendoza combined the 20 or so sound works into an "audio piece". Furthermore, all sounds were united in a 40-minute 6-channel sound installation seen and heard on site until 5 March.

Wingel Mendoza: Faded Memories
Hochschule für Musik Mainz, Black Box
14 - 16.02

If nothing passed away, there would not be past time; and if nothing were coming, there would not be future time; and if nothing were, there would not be present time said ST. Augustine. Therefore, “Faded memories” deals with the projection of past memories, present and projection future in an interactive way represented by 3 acrylic panels. Each panel contains 2cassette players, one is recording and the other one is playing what was recorded with a 9 seconds delay, played by a speaker attached to the panel. The sound of each panel represents the past, present, and future. For the past panel, the sounds are different recordings I did, such as urban sounds from different cities, natural environments from different countries, and pieces I composed, the past could be only triggered by the presence of the audience by a movement sensor. The panel of present contains the sound of the electromagnetism produced by my computer in real-time meanwhile it´s playing the local news. The sounds of the future are the convolution of the past and the present and it is only activated when the panel of the past is triggered too. The panels of past and present are translucid and the future is a white one. Images are displayed by a projector going through the panels. Since the past and present are translucent the projection can only be seen in the third panel (Future). The images are memories of different places I have been, related to the sources of sounds of the past because the images are generated by the sounds. Without memories, we are not conscious of our present and therefore the future wouldn´t be clear. Every panel reacts to the other one, without the panel of the Past, there are no sounds in the panel of the future and without the presence of someone, the only panel working is the present, because the present is always going on.

Christopher Dahm: ECHOS (2020)
Karmeliterkirche Mainz
14. - 16. February 2020

Sound installation: mirrors, metal stands, transducers, audio player, amplifier

In Greek mythology, Narcissus despairs of love for his own mirror image after he abruptly rejected the wooing of nymph Echo. According to the story, an echo, a reverberation, has nothing individual to offer, it only reflects what has been. Like a mirror reflection, the energy of an echo steadily decreases over time and space - until it completely disappears from perception. In ECHOS the dimension of space becomes an instrument. Reflecting mirrors determine the composition and sound rhythm. Auditory and visual lines of reflection correspond, create patterns. In ECHOS an impulse sound gets played out through a loudspeaker, facing a mirror. Through ongoing mirror reflections, the room itself determines the composition and sound rhythm. Auditory and visual lines of reflections correspond, create patterns. All impulse sounds got recorded with a contact microphone inside the church. This installation is adaptable for any room size with different amount of mirrors.

Klangkunst im Dommuseum
Klangkunst aus der HfM Mainz bei der Langen Nacht der Museen Fulda
27.09 - 19 Uhr - 01 Uhr

Am 27. September von 19 bis 01 Uhr werden im Dommuseum Fulda Prof. Peter Kiefer mit Studierenden der HfM Mainz ihre Klangkunst-Installationen präsentieren.
Es werden Installationen von Prof. Peter Kiefer, Christopher Dahm, Wingel Mendoza, Danbi Jeung und Anahita Ghasemi Nasab zu erleben sein.

Klangkunst: A dream within a dream 2019
Hochschule für Musik Mainz, Blavk box
Mittwoch, 06. Februar, 19:30 Uhr

Klangkunst-Konzert: „A dream within a dream“

mit Arbeiten von
Anahita Ghasemi Nasab (Iran)
Christopher Dahm (Deutschland)
Wingel Mendoza (Mexiko)

Künsterlische Leitung: Prof. Peter Kiefer, Kaspar König

Neben Einzelarbeiten der Studierenden ist eine Group Performance zu erleben, inspiriert durch das Gedicht „A dream within a dream“ von Edgar Allen Poe.

- 43 Dream tones ... by Wingel Mendoza (Mexico)
Our dreams are based in our personal and daily life experiences, sometimes they bring us memories creating a new non-real present. I brought some significative sounds I had in my childhood and with these I creat different dream scenarios. 43 Dream tones for amplified table, loop tapes, tape machines and live electronics.

- One Word ... by Christopher Dahm (Germany)
Which sounds can be derived from a spoken word? How does the meaning of the word behave in this context? In digital soundscapes Christopher Dahm embarks on an experimental search. In the ten-minute piece, one word is deformed in various ways, decomposed and reassembled.

- My Joint Self! ... by Anahita Ghasemi Nasab (Iran)
Three short pieces for Piano, Assistant and Audio Tape. Based on three abstract paintings by Sina Mousavion.

Group Performance ... inspired by Edgar Allen Poe