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Sound installation

E LUCEVAN
LE STELLE

 

Sound installation by Thilo Fischer

4 horn loudspeakers on stand, lacquered, iPod, 4 plastic stacking chairs, print on cardboard, 13', audio loop

Waiting for his execution at Castel Sant'Angelo, the painter Mario Cavaradossi writes a farewell letter to his beloved Tosca in the eponymous opera "Tosca" (1900) by Giacomo Puccini entitled "E Lucevan le Stelle" ("And the stars are shining"). In a sound installation at the medieval Klempenow Castle in Western Pomerania, Germany, a loudspeaker system pushes the "Tosca" aria in version of a live recording from 1957 through the openings in the walls into the summer sky above Klempenow. The music accompanies everyone who steps out onto the balcony and lets their gaze wander over the canoe hiking station, the fields and an army of huge wind turbines in the distance, only a few of which are turning, at a height of around 20 metres.

Exhibited at Klempenow Castle

"Raststätte 1km"

30 July - 11 September 2022

Bert Neumann Association

with Kultur-Transit-96 e.V.

Funded by the BKM, the Bundesverband Soziokultur and NEUSTART KULTUR

Photo Credits: BNA / Thilo Fischer

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