Lynn Pook, Berlin / Paris
À Fleur de Peau
Sound installation for one body
From the ceiling of an area separated off by lengths of material, various sizes of white fabric hang from various lengths of white cable. Inside the white fabric are hidden small speakers. The entire piece possesses a feeling reminiscent of a laboratory and resembles an ECG device; moreover it is meant more to be heard and felt than simply to be observed.
In this environment, the artist invites each recipient of her sound installation to experience the haptic component of sound transmission.
On entering the sound installation, a complex audiotactile perceptive world opens up to you. It is hard to describe this in words, it withdraws itself from visual perception. With help of a 16-channel loudspeaker system, distributed directly upon the body, sound and vibrations are clearly sensed. Lynn Pook creates a sound-sculpture, which moves on and within the body of the recipient. Her composition defines the movement of the electronic sounds according to a certain spatial and rhythmic pattern.
The electronic sounds move along the body from speaker to speaker and are heard via conduction along the bones to the ear.
