Sonorbit - Sonorbytes
Movable room score and laboratory
Switzerland – 2004 - 2005
Sonorbytes, spatial installation with ambisonic 3D sound diffusion- a moving audio-visual kaleidoscope.
Sonorbytes is a laboratory for sound and image, a catalyst for ideas, a constantly changing experiential space in which the public can partly influence the images and sounds themselves and thus find their own new associations. The transparent drawings on the octagonal illuminated surface may, indeed should, be touched and played with, so that one can find and invent one's own images, intersections, and combinations. With every movement in the space, a different visual and sonic experience is created. Other layers and nodes can be seen and, thanks to the three-dimensional sound diffusion, can also be heard spatially-immersively.
«While in earlier works Charlotte Hug started from visually or emotionally significant spaces, reacted to them and investigated her very distinct sound experience, in Sonorbit she creates a strong experiential space: the audience not only hears sounds and tones, but sees the Son-Icons that serve Charlotte Hug as scores, for example in the 2nd part of the performance, in which they lie on the stage floor, which glows like a large lightbox. What is more, the audience experiences the two-dimensionality of the drawings expanding into three dimensions in the course of the performance. The Son-Icons are projected onto movable walls of film and reflective surfaces; the three-dimensional score in which Charlotte Hug moves is created; and thus, several qualities of space are created, entered into physically on stage, perceived visually and acoustically - and in the minds of the spectators, who produce their own spatial memories and associations. » Quote from press release by Nadine Olonetzky
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At Sonorbit & Sonorbytes sound and image Lab, the following guests were invited for transdisciplinary scenic collaborations: John Edwards, double bass, London / Fine Kwiatkowski, dance, Berlin, Nadine Olonetzky, literature, Zurich / Walter Küng, acting, Aarau / Institute for Computer Music & Sound Technology ICST Zurich : Johannes Schütt, ambisonic spatialisation based on Son-Icons, Martin Neukom, sound columns, Peter Färber technical concept / ‘light and motion’, Vienna, light technology & design.
director Heinz Gubler, production Gubcompany, production Küde Meier
Sonorbit & Sonorbytes could be developed thanks to the ‘artist in residence’ at the art laboratory Forum Claque 2002-2003 with world premiere at BBI Belluard Bollwerk International 2004.
Follow-up exhibition by Charlotte Hug at Progr Bern and solo exhibition at Kunstkeller Bern 2005
Thanks to Pro Helvetia for the composition commission Sonorbit and to the BAK for the media award ‘sitemapping’, with which Sonorbyte could be realized.
