haarmannhommelsheim

How can one create space for the absent through the presence of sound? With a central interest in loops, we layer acoustic layers on top of and below each other. The present surrounds the absent. Individual voices are shadowed in the depth of the room, landscapes emerge. Landscapes that leave room for the foreign.

 

 

“It is healing to keep a space for the foreign within yourself. That would be an expression of friendliness, which also makes it possible for one to become different,” Byung-Chul Han from “Absence, on the culture and philosophy of the Far East”.

“Absence” is explored as a musical strategy. Christiane Hommelsheim sings and plays sound objects, Ralf Haarmann electronics and mandolin. In the loop device, all sounds lose their physicality, flow into themselves, leave the world of matter. Sounds appear and disappear, become webs of sound, sound shadows. Occasionally a sentence sounds out of nowhere, which swings unfinished in the room as furniture of thought, spins out in the listener’s ear and then retreats into the blur. Haarmann Hommelsheim create a poetry of absence, a poetry of nothingness.