Poeme Electronique, Sound Pavilion
Audio installation, 2014
Sound Pavilion has been created in collaboration with contemporary electronic music composer Nick Höppner (Germany). It is an experimental project where, complementing each other, invited collaborators from various disciplines will build a kinetic sound object. Its point of departure is the graphic representation of music. Using stochastic processes, the melody of the composition will be converted into static form. • The work stems from associations with Le Corbusier’s project Poème électronique (Philips Pavilion, Expo 1958, Brussels), which was the first sound pavilion in the world, and was created in collaboration with composer Edgard Varèse and architect and composer Iannis Xenakis.
Artist's Bio:
Kristīne Alksne’s works have their origin in a succession of pieces of visual information that she picks out from her surroundings in the reality of daily life: a reality made up of natural phenomena observed in their organic transience and in the most minute detail, and comprising many displacements, be they long journeys or minimal changes in location. Under her attentive gaze, neither the routes we walk along every day, nor the landscape that we watch unfold beneath us from the window of the airplane while we fly from one continent to another, pass by unobserved. Elements and details drawn from these visions are recorded and recomposed in vibrant maps of imaginary landscapes.