Update / Acoustic Horizon - Final Weekend, Berlin Circus Festival

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29 Mar

Written By Özcan Ertek

Turn the horn, tune your ear — final weekend to hear “Acoustic Horizon” at @berlincircusfestival . For the BCF, the horn maps bird and nature sounds from around the city and blends them with the surrounding urban soundscape, 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”.