LIVE FROM THE LISTENING LOUNGE / CAROLINE ANN BAUR & VANESSÀ HEER

Suitable for all who like to chill, listen, and want to learn more about electroacoustic music.

Vanessà Heer & Caroline Ann Baur: «along liquid purrs» (2022)
quadrophonic electro-acoustic composition

«Live From the Listening Lounge» introduces live moments into the listening lounge WEICHEKISSENHEISSEOHREN. Caroline Ann Baur, Noémi Büchi, Vanessà Heer, and Thomas Peter conduct short interventions in which they present insights into their work and invite audiences to a collective listening to their compositions.

Concert ticket also available as a combined ticket with the event «Beton & Gedächtsnis» (10 AM) or as part of the day pass.

Vanessà Heer & Caroline Ann Baur: «along liquid purrs» (2022)
2-channel electroacoustic composition

Developed within a residency at UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch organized by the theatre project Anthropos Ex, the composition «along liquid purrs» was initially presented in a forest next to a dried-out creek, inviting the audience to a collective listening situation. The composition consists of water sounds collected from within one square mile of the biosphere, also involving sounds of insects and various organisms next to the creek. Vanessà Heer and Caroline Ann Baur varied the field recordings in subtle modulations for their quadrophonic installation. Even though the partly synthetic-sounding, almost dancing sounds from flowing to rushing streams of creeks resonate with the situational environment, the almost dried-up stream of a creek suddenly appears surreal. The temporal shift is reminiscent of something that was once flurishing, not very long ago. At the same time, the sounds have a meditative, calming character as well as, through the modulations, they remind us of the virtuality of the situation and bring with it a slightly uncanny feeling.

Thanks to the group Anthropos Ex, for the invitation and the great organization, to Marcus Maeder for his valuable knowledge he shared and practiced with us, and of course to the other participants for their sharing, their attentive listening and most of all for creating together this tender and living space, filled with warmth, interest, and care.