TIME TO X / David Hochgatterer (AT)
In TIME TO X, David Hochgatterer (AT) alludes to Albert Einstein’s Theory of Space and Time and its four-dimensional hyperspace. David Hochgatterer’s audio installation consists of 96 tiny loudspeakers arrayed one next to the other in an almost five-meter-long housing mounted on the exhibition space’s wall. So much for the installation’s hardware. David Hochgatterer has divided up an audio file containing a spoken sentence into 96 fragments and plays each one of them back—simultaneously—on one of the 96 loudspeakers. The result is what you might call a “freeze-frame of a timeframe,” since this sentence’s entire acoustic information is compacted into a single moment. From afar, the installation visitor hears a noisy “overall impression.” But when you go at the right speed from left to right along the loudspeaker array, you simultaneously move forward in time—one fragment at a time—and you can hear the human voice.
credit: Florian Voggeneder
TIME TO X / David Hochgatterer (AT)
In TIME TO X, David Hochgatterer (AT) alludes to Albert Einstein’s Theory of Space and Time and its four-dimensional hyperspace. David Hochgatterer’s audio installation consists of 96 tiny loudspeakers arrayed one next to the other in an almost five-meter-long housing mounted on the exhibition space’s wall. So much for the installation’s hardware. David Hochgatterer has divided up an audio file containing a spoken sentence into 96 fragments and plays each one of them back—simultaneously—on one of the 96 loudspeakers. The result is what you might call a “freeze-frame of a timeframe,” since this sentence’s entire acoustic information is compacted into a single moment. From afar, the installation visitor hears a noisy “overall impression.” But when you go at the right speed from left to right along the loudspeaker array, you simultaneously move forward in time—one fragment at a time—and you can hear the human voice.
credit: Florian Voggeneder