Update / Birds on the Wire at Zwitschermaschine

Özcan Ertek – Birds on the Wire
– interactive sound installation –
Bird spikes, contact mics, MAX, audience, speakers

Dreaming of a world where interspecies conflict gives way to cohabitation, the work reimagines bird spikes as a sound artefact. The work speculates on how defensive architecture might be reclaimed by the species it targets—pigeons. The installation diffuses recorded pigeon sounds, reabsorbs them via contact mics, and projects them back into the space—allowing visitors to experience the material as a vessel for sonic exchange. Visitors are also invited to activate new timbres from the spikes, rethinking the boundaries between hostility and cohabitation.

“Birds on the Wire” by @ozcanertek was on view at @zwitschermaschine last weekend as part of “Groundless – Birds, Models & Plastic Songs.”

photos by @zak_krevitt

Media arts collective @groundless.group plays with the media of a changing world.