https://www.area-composer.de/places/en-tempelherrenhaus/

  
**Preview of the video-sound installation at Genius Loci Weimar**

The Area Composing focuses on nature as a place of action and source of inspiration for art. The composition shows the old trees of the park on the river Ilm. In between, the ruins of the tower of the Tempelherrenhaus shine out. The building from the 18th century was once a romantic salon where receptions, exhibitions and concerts were held. Today it is an architectural witness to this era, in which art was perceived as an idealized reflection of nature – as it was by the writer and naturalist Goethe, who had initiated the construction of the classicist tower. Now overgrown by plants, the remains of this contemporary witness are at the same time a symbol of nature’s regenerative power. The preview of the Area Composing took place in the context of the 8th Genius Loci Weimar Festival at the cinema mon ami.

**Performance concept for the realization in the park on the Ilm**

The Area Composing is performed at the place of its creation and connects with nature in the park on the Ilm. Performance islands are installed at various locations in the park, between which visitors can move. The projections are made on gauze cloths that are stretched between trees or move in the air stream and seem to float in the air, as well as on the surface of the water on the Ilm. With the performance in the park of the Tempelherrenhaus the audience returns to the former cultural site.

TEMPELHERRENHAUS Weimar

**Santa Justa – 40'26'' - with surround sound by Ronald Gaube** 

  
With the neogothic elevator from the Baixa to the Chiado In the middle of the city of Lisbon, this monstrosity stands in a side street of the pedestrian zone. If you don't know that it is there, you may get a proper fright when it suddenly appears in your field of vision with its 45 steel meters height. But that is precisely what makes it so magically attractive. At 7 in the morning, the sun is just right between the canyons of houses and the tourists are still asleep – the best time for a Liquid Image ... 

  
The images have also taken over Ronald Gaube, so that he has again composed and recorded a soundtrack of original sounds - voices and soundscapes - and electronic music. The sound is optionally available in 5.1 surround sound, but not at this point ...

JUSTA

https://www.area-composer.de/places/en-tarkow/

  
**Surreal cinema**

**TARKOW featuring D,R,ON**

Premiere of the video-sound installation at the Festival for Film Art Berlin This Area Composing is a journey inside the cosmos of the Armenian artist Vazgen Pahlavuni-Tadevosyan. On a macroscopic camera tour through Vazo’s studio in a convent in southern France, detailed shots were taken which unite into a Liquid Image. The extremely slow images merging into one another remind us of the surrealist imagery of Andrei Tarkowski. A soundscape of indefinable sounds from the sound sculpture D,R,ON arouses the most diverse moods and associations. The premiere of TARKOW took place on July 31 and August 12, 2022 as part of the Filmgarten Berlin.

**The sound source: D,R,ON**

sound sculpture by Peter Hölscher, 2021 wood and metal with contact microphone and electronic sound pickup width/ height/ depth: 500 cm/ 73 cm/ 87 cm Designed and built for Ron Gaube Since their student days, Ron and Peter have been creating each other challenging sculptures as birthday presents. Actually, they only wanted to give each other small objects, because the space to put them up is slowly becoming rare. Nevertheless, Peter built the largest sculpture for Ron so far in 2021.

**Intuitive composition evokes sound associations**

The entire sound comes from a single sound source: D,R,ON. The sound sculpture is an amplified instrument. Percussive, dark sounds can be produced via a contact microphone on the wooden body. An electronic sound pick-up amplifies the four-metre-long metal rods, which can be used to create singing string and scratching noises as well as floating gongs. Direct touching of the contact microphone produces very close-sounding, harsh, indefinable noises – from barely perceptible atmospheric crackling to infernal machine roar. Ron spent a day experimenting with D,R,ON and pulled out many different sounds – using old wire brushes and saw blades, a metal tape measure, various mallets and his hands. The sounds were recorded directly via the pickups and transferred to the computer via an interface. Various effect devices and modulation filters were used to shape the sounds for TARKOW. The composition for TARKOW is very intuitive. Following the abstract macro-structures of the images, it consists of noises and sounds that cannot be assigned to any known sound source, but which evoke the most diverse sound associations. The contrast-rich spatial structures of the images are acoustically recreated and commented on.

**Vazo’s cosmos – inconceivable image-sound world**

The images were taken in the studio of the Armenian painter and drawer Vazgen Pahlavuni-Tadevosyan in a convent in southern France. Peter visits his friend „Vazo“ regularly, and the two then work together in the studio. Every time, Peter is overwhelmed by the huge mess that reigns there. Peter captured this „chaos“ of Vazo on a kind of camera journey. When photographing and later post-processing the countless detail shots, the rich treasure of the studio only became truly visible to him. The extremely wide-format macro shots reveal a new world: Vazo’s cosmos. Peter composed a Liquid Image from selected images. The extremely slow merging of the images reveals the creative process of the Armenian artist and transports the viewer into a mysterious, surrealistic world. The 27-minute work is not a film. It is a single image that develops very slowly, almost imperceptibly on a timeline and ultimately emerges in the viewer’s mind. In combination with the soundscape of sounds from the sound sculpture D,R,ON, a work of art is created that cannot be comprehended: an inconceivable image-sound world, filled with own associations and emotions.

TARKOW – D,R,O,N

https://www.area-composer.de/places/en-silence/

  
**10,000 visitors experience SILENCE in the Augustinian Church**

Augustinian pastor Bernd S. Prigge wanted „another advent“ for 2021 and requested us via Genius Loci to create an installation for his church in Erfurt. The sonic image SILENCE – THE OTHER ADVENT was so well received that it was extended into the new year. During the almost six weeks, more than 10,000 visitors experienced it. Hendrik Wendler from the Thuringian video and projection art festival Genius Loci was responsible for the curation and production.

**Hendrik Wendler, Genius Loci:**

_»With SILENCE, Area Composer have once again provided a ‚perfect match‘ for a demanding task. The request from the congregation of the Augustinian Church in Erfurt for an artistic production for the advent season was very valuable and important for us from Genius Loci. Of course, we wanted a result that was at the same time powerful, sublimely illuminating the dark advent season, but at no time drifting into the thoughtless, kaleidoscopic. SILENCE meets this requirement perfectly. Sounds and images, carefully condensing from the mundane into the sacred, decelerate and touch in a unique and secure way that only the artists of Area Composer are capable of realising.«_

**270-degree projection with 3D sound**

During our five-day visit in September 2021, we take thousands of photographs and many hours of sound recordings in Erfurt’s historic city centre, from which we compose the sonic image. Thus SILENCE is not only a portrait of the Augustinian monastery, but also leads the viewer through squares and alleys to other significant buildings in the city, such as the Preacher’s Church, the Cathedral and the Barfüsser Church.

Five days before the premiere, we are back in Erfurt to accompany the set-up and adapt the composition to the church hall. Mapping software is used to adapt the images precisely to the shape of the walls so that it fills the entire choir room of the Augustinian Church. Three high-performance projectors on the gallery enable the 270-degree projection. To ensure that the historic choir windows remain visible even in the dark, they become part of the composition as a separate image layer. The sounds are played over the church’s own sound system and unfold in three-dimensional sound characteristics. The entire installation is controlled remotely via a media server. The technology remains invisible to the church visitors – the sonic image seems to develop from the church architecture itself.

SILENCE – The Other Advent

https://www.area-composer.de/places/en-kari-kami/

  
**Caucasian airstream in an image-sound composition**

KARI-K’AMI – these are the Georgian and Armenian words for airstream. This airstream runs through the Area Composing as a leitmotif in both sound and images. Peter Hölscher takes the photographs from a driving car on his journey from Georgia to Armenia. What the camera captures in these irretrievable moments of the journey he can hardly control. Only after his return the treasure is revealed – a tense moment. In developing the images, he crystallises intense colours and astonishingly concrete motifs. His image composition shows the bizarre interventions of man in the archaic landscape of the Caucasus and the destruction caused by earthquakes and war: ruins from which new life grows.

The simultaneity of beauty and decay, joy and pain also characterises the sound composition that Ronald Gaube builds on the dramaturgy of the images. Sounds of instruments typical for the region, such as duduk and dhol, mix with organ and string sounds, industrial and natural noises. The voices of the landscape and the people penetrate the airstream and seem to tell the story of this place where our culture originated. A special sound moment is the soprano saxophone played by Dorothee Pilavas at the end of the composition.

KARI K'AMI

https://www.area-composer.de/en-startseite/

  
**Unique Video-Sound Installations**

Area Composings are audiovisual installations of extremely slow merging images and a purpose-composed sound. Each video-sound installation is specially composed for the performance site and is not shown in this form at any other venue. The media artists Peter Hölscher, Ronald Gaube and Dorothee Pilavas record the images and sounds of the location with cameras, recording devices and all their senses and unite them to an audiovisual artwork. The sound reacts to the images – the images interpret the sound. The result is an inseparable combination of light art and sound art.

**Digital art with innovative projektion mapping**

Area Composing is digital art combined with innovative projection mapping. Precisely matched to the respective performance site, the media installations change the perception of buildings, squares or spaces and transform them into urban screens. Under bridges, on facades, in squares, in parks, on the water or in churches, museums, theatres, foyers, waiting rooms, showrooms – in public spaces the video-sound installations become audiovisual interventions, turn the audience into participants and invite them to interact.

**Media art for immersing and slowing down**

Unlike the often loud and fast urban screen projections or certain agitated light installations, an Area Composing has a decelerating, sometimes even contemplative effect. This is created by the perfect interplay of image and sound. The eye is almost unable to grasp the seemingly imperceptible changes in the extremely slow merging images. No sooner has the eye fixed on a detail than it dissolves again. This creates a completely different way of seeing, which deepens perception and allows the viewer to become truly immersed. The sound adds an emotional level of perception and triggers fantasies. Images arise in the mind in addition to the visible images – a profound moment of letting go and slowing down.

Area Composer showreel: Overview of our video-sound-installations for urban spaces

Videomapping, Sound and Sculpture, interactive media installation on urban square, Dortmund, Germany

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