Cathy van Eck

One loudspeaker and three microphones are placed opposite eachother. The volume is turned high, and feedback occurs. Three performers manipulate the feedback by shifting foam-board panels around, creating new spaces with every movement and therefore also changing the space, in which the feedback can resonate. Depending of the placement of the shields and of the pitches of the feedback, the sound is processed by the computer. (all pictures © Silvana Torrinha)

Song No 3 is a performance during which I use arm gestures normally used by singers as a byproduct of their singing performance as a means to control electronic sound. I am not making any noises with my voice. Instead, the input volume of the microphone is controlling the sound processing done by the computer. This sound is then diffused through the loudspeaker (with a white paper glued on the membrane) on my head. (all pictures © Silvana Torrinha)

A usual fashion to hear music nowadays is through headphones. The mp3-player made more music transportable than ever before and public spaces are crowded nowadays with people, living in their own acoustic world. My project is about reversing this situation. I am walking around the city, playing music from an mp3-player, this time not for creating private music, but for diffusing it out of two big yellow hornloudspeakers, radiating the sound to the environment. (all pictures © Silvana Torrinha)

In in blik, instead of musicians, five tin can towers are performing. The tin cans are humming softly, singing aloud or just breathing . At certain times though, they also try to break out of their tin cans: they start to shake and move, sounding now like percussion instruments. They shake till they drop apart, and nothing more than some ordinary tin cans are left.

Klangverordnung – die verbotene Klänge der Stadt Bern: A performance on the noise protection regulations in Bern between 1928 and 1980. Many sounds have been forbidden during the last centuries, like singing and shouting in the streets, motor noises, carpet beatings and even the barking of the dogs. I bring these forbidden noises, that have been silenced by law, back in the city. (Rehearsal pictures in Zurich)