»Airchoir No. 2: Dirges for (26) Coded Organ Voices« transforms sound, textiles and technology into a spatially expansive instrument. A specially developed ventilation and electronic system sets 26 metal and wooden organ pipes into vibration, while inflatable elements expand and contract like breathing organs. As in a choir, the individual voices merge into a larger sonic body, while overlapping tones shift throughout the space according to the listeners’ positions.
The work is the second in a series of deconstructed pipe organs. Resembling a dispersed or ‘blown-apart’ choir, the inflatable bodies function as artificial lungs, while the organ pipes become voices within a mechanically orchestrated system. Here, Kellner explores the tensions between the organic and the non-organic, the human and the technological. The installation is based on a fully programmed and electronically controlled system. Strict algorithmic compositions encounter a seemingly living, breathing body, creating a dynamic interplay between sensory and rational structures.

Anouk Kellner is a sound artist and composer based in Belgium. Working across sound art, experimental music, installation and performance, she creates poetic sonic environments that explore sound as both material and relational phenomenon. Her practice is rooted in the idea that listening and sound are shaped by the systems and networks through which they emerge and circulate. Through processes of deconstruction and reduction, Kellner makes these underlying interdependencies perceptible, inviting listening to become an intentional activity. In doing so, she explores diverse modes of listening and the ways we relate to space, to one another, and to sound itself. Through performances and installations, she investigates the relational nature of sound and its poetic potential.

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