Documentation / Acoustic Horizon at Berlin Circus Festival
Turn the horn, tune your ear — “Acoustic Horizon” was at @berlincircusfestival this summer in August 2025 . For the BCF, the horn mapped bird and nature sounds from around the city and blended them with the surrounding urban soundscape, by creating musical forms that echo the festival’s atmosphere.
Acoustic Horizon
interactive sound installation
metal, solar panels, arduino, electronic compass sensor, amplifiers, speakers, shakers
“Acoustic Horizon” is an interactive sound installation that deals with the acoustic relationship between the human and its environment. Using a soundscape approach, the installation reflects on both the history, present and possible future environmental quality of the site by actively blurring the boundaries of proximity and distance. It creates sound forms by generating connections between concepts that we see as opposing such as distant/close, nature/technology, conscious/unconscious, natural/artificial or physical and emotional.
It’s a performative/interactive installation that consists of a hexagonal horn-shaped sculpture, transistors, a location sensor (electronic compass), speakers and shakers. The interactive sound installation is powered with solar panels and can be rotated. According to the direction, it brings distant sounds to the site and lets the audience listen to the “horizon”.
“Acoustic Horizon” is currently being exhibited at @baerenzwinger.berlin as part of group exhibition “Relation in Place”.
Photos by @janaisabellaluck