Timo Kahlen. Sound sculptures and installations                                                                               (page 2/3)      

Timo Kahlen. Eins (One), 2005
ca. 24 x 40 x 38 cm
From a series of sensual, softly purring, vibrating
sound sculptures (made of artificial fur, feathers,
enclosed loudspeakers and sound)

"Media Dirt", Ruine der Kuenste Berlin, 2005 and "Sound Art" exhibition,
Traumzeit-Festival / Duisburg 2007; "SoundObjects", Digital Media,
La Nau / Valencia 2008; and Goethe-Institut / Milano 2008

Timo Kahlen. Dislocation,
Ruine der Kuenste Berlin 2008

The work, enclosing low noise and rumble,
blocks the passage to the gallery space
with an oversized metal case (60 x 320 x 70 cm)
forced into the entrance of the building

"Trespassing", Ruine der Kuenste Berlin 2008

Timo Kahlen. UR, 2006

Generative net art / interactive sound work.
In "UR" (2006) surfaces and vessels
become the containers of unwanted noise and 'dirt' generated
by technological media and communication. Bits and pieces of sound
create complex microcosms, generated by the viewer when he
touches and rolls over the given objects with his cursor.
The multi-part sound piece, made up of grinding, creaking,
humming sounds and white noise, is conceived for the projection
in the gallery space.

Available at http://www.staubrauschen.de/ur/






 


Timo Kahlen. Zwiebelmuster (Still # 16), 2001 / 2006
Sound sculpture. Images of a swarm of flies hovering
over a plate - oscillating and vibrating irrationally, agitated by
very low, barely audible sounds of interfering radio waves.
Photographic images, wire, plate, loudspeaker and sound : a kinetic 'still life'.

"Sound Art 2006: Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis" exhibition / art cologne 2006
"Earcatcher", Ruine der Kuenste Berlin 2006
"Tonspur expanded: The Loudspeaker", Vienna 2010 - 2011

Timo Kahlen. Wabe, 2002
Electronic / audio beehive

The sound of bees contained in marmalade jars,
clustered and tied up. Frequent disruptions by the
sudden, strong vibration of the small loudspeakers
against the glass walls

Timo Kahlen. Frösche (Frogs), 1996

Jam jars in a display case, enclosed sound of frogs.
Reminiscent of "collecting pond life as a child (often saved
in old jam jars) and... a visual prompt to thoughts
about the sound still allowed while the freedom
(so necessary for the frog to survive)
is denied through containment."
Joanna Littlejohns, Guernsey 2001

"I like it to be on a second layer, more abstract.
Getting away from nature, but imitating it at the same time."
Timo Kahlen in a conversation with Joanna Littlejohns
International Artist in Residence Programme, Guernsey 2001

    


Timo Kahlen. Sketches for
Electronic Beehive
New Delhi 2007 - 2010

Interactive multi-channel sound sculpture
based on the sound of bees whirring through the air.
In cooperation with Ranjit Makkuni,
Gandhi Multimedia Arts Museum, New Delhi

  





Timo Kahlen. In's Grüne (Into Green), 2007

A pair of rubber boots (Wellingtons) filled with
abstract chirping, beeping sounds.The boots are placed
in a fragile field of porcellain dishes. "The sense of
a walk in the meadows - yet strangely synthetical..."

Weltecho Galerie, Chemnitz 2007







Timo Kahlen. Noise & Beauty, 2007

Perpetual movement of static, twittering, chirping,
floating sounds across fields of loudspeakers placed on two plateaus.
18-channel sound composition, chance movements generated courtesy
of Dieter Kohtz, Kiel. Based on radio static noise and synthetically
produced "natural" sounds

"Timo Kahlen: Noise & Beauty", Weltecho Galerie / Chemnitz 2007

    


Timo Kahlen
Circe, 2006

Two Sennheiser Audiobeam directional loudspeakers
put the gallery space in continual motion as the humming,
buzzing sound of flies seems to float throughout the space,
along the ceiling, walls and across two clusters of
metal constructions - yet the flies remain invisible.

Other, more stationary and lower, softly moaning
and singing sounds (again, re-pitched sounds of insects)
travel at random across nine smaller loudspeakers
attached to the rigid metal frameworks, which trap
and pin down a series of delicate porcellaine plates
carefully laid out on the gallery floor.
The work's motif is a scene from Greek mythology,
in which Ulysses is trapped by the wonders of Circe.

11-channel sound installation at the Ruine der Kuenste Berlin, 2006.
With kind support by Sennheiser Germany.
Chance generation of sound courtesy Dieter Kohtz.

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