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Tentacles BERLIN KG AUGENSTERN TENTACLES BERLIN PARIS MAGUELONE KG AUGENSTERN TENTACLES 2014 / 2015 NETHERLANDS BERLIN Nijmegen BELGIUM GERMANY Maastricht Charleroi PARIS The artist group Augenstern (Christiane Prehn Each of the bridges passed has its personal and Wolfgang Meyer) have lived and worked on soundprofile, created by its shape, its practical the ship Anuschka for many years. use and its way of construction. FRANCE In July 2014 the MS Anuschka left Berlin in the During the journey KG Augenstern presented direction of Paris before reaching their final audiovisual performances that could be observed destination in the south of France in November and heard along the banks. Exhibitions of 2014. On the way, the crew examined numerous “Tentacles”- installations where shown in contem- bridges, spanning rivers and canals. Using porary art spaces at Arles and Valence. tentacles installed on board to scratch the bridges, A complete documentation of the sound recordings Amarages the ship turned into a sensitive, perceiving and can be heard on the SoundWays application. de Maguelone sounding laboratory interacting with the territory. 2 3 BERLIN Reichstag Marschallbrücke SPANDAU Liegeplatz Oberbaumbrücke Rummelsburg Havel Track 1 Berlin | Crossing busy Berlin on a windy day, we navigated the high water level. So, instead of scratching it with the ten- Km 0 – 25 (8:31) the Spree and Havel. There are 30 bridges from the east to tacles, we scratched it with our top-tent, which lead to a long the western city boundaries and their height just permits cut that had to be repaired later that day (You can hear that). our boat to pass. Unfortunately one of the bridges turned In the very beginning, you hear the sounds of our mooring out to be too low because of place in Berlin-Rummelsburg. 9 4 5 6 Berlin | Spree, Oberbaumbrücke Berlin | Spree, Marschallbrücke 7 BERLIN Mittellandkanal Dortmund- HANNOVER Ems-Kanal Nijmegen MÜNSTER Rhein DÜSSELDORF Track 2 From Berlin to Nijmegen (NL) | On the way between Ems Kanal, and then took the River Rhine in the direction Km 25 – 700 (9:41) Berlin and River Rhine, we traveled on the Havel River north with its very high bridges, which our tentacles and most of the time on the Mittellandkanal, which is quite couldn’t reach. boring and has a lot of commercial traffic. We passed Hannover and Münster with its 7 bridges at the Dortmund- 8 River Havel, Brücke Kirchmöser 9 10 Mittellandkanal around Hannover Dortmund-Ems Kanal around Münster River Rhine 11 Nijmegen (NL) DÜSSELDORF Maas Maastricht Canal du Centre (B) Valencienne (F) Sambre Charleroi (B) Canal du Nord (F) PARIS Saint Denis (Seine) Track 3 Through the Netherlands and Belgium to Paris | So we continued on numerous canals reaching France on Km 700 – 1500 (5:59) We turned south, up the river Maas through Maastricht, the river Schelde. From there we took the Canal du Nord Namur and on the river Sambre to Charleroi in Belgium. (where we had another scratch-cut in the top tent because Our initial plan was, to travel further on the Sambre didn’t one bridge was lower than indicated) and the river Oise work because some locks where closed for reconstruction. arriving on the Seine only a short distance left to Paris. 12 13 14 Maastricht | Maas Canal du Nord Oîse Seine 15 Saint -Denis Canal de L‘Ourcq Seine Pont Royal PARIS Tentacles Performance | Bande Original, Paris, Aug. 2014 to turn. And also, on a rainy August morning, the canal de l’Ourcq Friday morning we scratched the bridges is completely different: very rare joggers and dog walkers and an Pont Neuf with KG Augenstern. ambiance allotted to work: and there they are at work, Christiane Thanks to 6 hours daily navigation, they finally made it just and Wolfgang. in time for BO, having left Berlin the first of July on board of How many bridges they have scratched already? They don’t Pont Mirabeau their ship Anuschka. know that exactly but some hundreds. And the end of the game? Some accidents and channel closures later, KG Augenstern To establish a sound cartography of the bridges from Berlin to consisting of Christiane Prehn and Wolfgang Meyer, have Paris and further more from Paris to Arles where the German moored their battered boat (the roof was torn passing a bridge, artists are expected to arrive at “one time or another” to prepare the second motor developed problems …) at the confluence of an installation at Galerie Huit in the framework of Arles the two channels, the Ourcq channel, well known by the BO Contemporain in April 2015. fans, and the Saint-Denis channel. And if one asks them if they are able to recognise the sound quality Track 4 Paris (Canal de L’Ourcq and Seine) | From La Vilette in unfortunately it was a very windy journey and the On a weekday with rainy weather, the navigation on a private of a bridge before they pass it, they answer with a smile that “it’s Km 1500 – 1530 (12:40) central Paris, we took the quite industrial Canal de L’Ourcq 19 bridges from the western city borders to Pont Neuf where ship has a completely different sound quality as the weekend boats not the structure of concrete or metal of a bridge” that signs for (where we performed for Bande Originale, an art event) hard to record. In addition to that, our professional in the ambiance of the summer tourist season. Here, Anuschka its characteristic sound, but that it is much more “a question of direction north on a rainy day with eleven very nice bridges microphone collapsed leaving us with just a mobile phone has sometimes to give way to those impressive ships of Lafarge rhythm”. with a good height for our tentacles. Back on River Seine, for the recordings … Cement Factory or has to ask for the permission Annick Rivoire, Blog au fil de la BO 16 17 18 Paris | Canal de l‘Ourcq Paris | Seine, Pont Mirabeau Paris | Seine, Pont Royal Paris | Seine, Pont Neuf 19 Marne PARIS Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne Saône Lyon (centre ville) Tentacles live-stream | Track 5 From Paris to Lyon | We travelled the Marne River and narrow and in some parts very muddy which only allows at Soundgallery “Ohrenhoch-the noise shop”, Berlin, Sept. 2014 Km 1530 – 2020 (4:52) its canal upstream where we had quite rainy weather. To low speed and makes steering quite hard. Additionally During navigation on River Marne, two entire sundays of the be able to undergo the very low bridges of the Canal entre there are up to twenty locks to pass every day … so we journey including the bridge scratchings were screened via Champagne et Bourgogne we had to put down the top tent where quite happy to be back on the rivers on the Saône audiovisual livestream from the ship Anuschka in the gallery and steer under open sky for some days. The canal is very which brought us to Lyon. space of ohrenhoch and to the web-site Ohrenhoch TV. 20 Schiff 014 Curator: Knut Remond 21 22 River Marne, Railway Bridge Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne 23 24 Saône Mâcon | Saône, Pont Saint Laurent 25 Pont Masaryk Pont Georges Clémenceau Pont du Maréchal Koenig Paserelle de l‘Homme Pont de la Roche Pont de la Feuillée Saint Vincent Pont du Maréchal Juin Rhône Paserelle du Palais de Justice Pont Bonaparte Saône Paserelle de Sait Geomes Track 6 Lyon | We passed the ten bridges of central Lyon having Km 2020 – 2040 (1:41) quite nice weather. 26 Lyon | Saône, Pont St. Vincent Lyon | Saône, Passerelle du Palais de Justice 27 Lyon Valence Rhône Avignon Montpellier Arles Maguelone Track 7 From Lyon to the Mediterranean coast near Montpellier | Rhone et Sète. At the very end you can hear the sound Km 2014 – 2450 (5:17) The big Rhône River took us south very fast with the help of our winter mooring place at 6 am with different birds of the current. Bridges are high there because the water including flamingos. level alternates some meters depending on the weather. Near Arles we entered the little Rhône and the Canal entre 28 29 30 Vienne | River Rhône Donzère | River Rhône 31 32 River Rhône, Pont d‘Avignon Arles | River Rhône Little Rhône 33 34 Carnon | Canal du Rhône à Sète Canal du Rhône à Sète, winter mooring 35 Track 8 Scratching a tunnel | The sound of a tunnel on the Canal (4:51) entre Champagne et Bourgogne 36 Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne, Balesme tunnel 37 Track 9 Tentacles Synthesis | Installation, mixed media, Arles, All the sounds of the bridges are played together as (1:50) April 2015, Galerie Huit, Arles Contemporain a cluster. Stimulated by speakers, the noise of the cluster All the tentacles that where used are installed on a bottle dryer. makes the tentacles tremble. 38 39 Track 10 Tentacles 2 | Installation, mixed media, Valence, June 2015 vary according to the room. The installation turns with (2:26) Seven buoys discovered on the beach of the Mediterranean the slow precision of a clockwork. Through a flexible are suspended on rotating electric motors. At each of the suspension with roaps, the movements and sounds are buoys a tentacle is attached, which comes repeatedly to the still in permanent, randomly change. Materials, limits of its field of action and then, scratches at walls at structure, shape and acoustics of the room are auditively the floor or the ceiling. The produced sounds and rhythms and visually transformed in a permanent process. 40 41 KG AUGENSTERN TENTACLES Tracks: Tentacles in SoundWays 1.
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