Transparency/achitecture acoustique (Film/Music III)

On Translation: Transparency/Architecture acoustique
Transparency is the prior issue in designing the environment of control politics. Translating the information one gets from everyday urban surroundings is based on articulations of and experiences with the mass media.
Since 1999 we can watch the government working in the Reichstag in Berlin, as a tourist attraction, daily and live. It is a truly framed view, if anything is visible at all. The reflections of the spectacular architectural element are an obstacle to look through, but excite the visitors to take lots of pictures. The glass cupola of the Reichstag is designed in modernist fashion. It seizes the light in its structure to modulate space and time visible in material existence. (Teaching at the Bauhaus, R. K. Wick, p. 138) In the field of language transparency is a phrase, which is used in multiple, overlapping subjects . It describes, upon other meanings, the effort to suit oneʼs rhetoric to the widest possible audience, without losing relevant information in the process. In another use of the word, transparency translates film material. Architecture acoustique emphasizes the articulated spectacle of transparency, a spectacle equally provoked by mass media and the recipients. When looking through a voluminous glass facade, it filters sound from both sides of the wall. In the film, translation is the interpretation of meaning of an image production into another visual language, of an equivalent message. The work employs images of the Bundestag in Berlin, the Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam as a link between early modernist glass and steal architecture and its usage today and the Atatürk Cultural Centre (AKM) in İstanbul where the final work will be shown.

2007 On Translation Transparency, edition 2000, Aleksander Komarov, Music: Elvira Plenar (partly "sonus@anima")
published by Mondriaan Foundation,Amsterdam and 10th International Istanbul Biennial

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Music

Tags:

• Elvira Plenar
• Aleksander Komarov
• music
• architecture
• Karin Ernst