Hybrid Orkestra

Elektronic birds in the park
Soundinstallation / Viertelfestival Lower Austria 2010
15.May – 8. August 2010 in the City Park Krems, daily 5:30am-6:30am in the morning hours

The ubiquity of mobile communication has its influence also on other species on this planet: as a reference to the urban legend of the singing birds starting to twitter the ringtone melodies of their neighbourhood, the “Hybrid Orkestra” tries to re-interprete the birds’ whistle in an improvised concert. 20 discarded cell phones start their second spring as solar-powerd sound modules which are mounted in little woode bird-cages on the trunks of trees in the city park of Krems, Lower Austria. The phones are controlled by a random algorhythm and start to ring every day in the early morning hours- some sort of jam session altering our picture of ringing phones from acoustic pollution to a peaceful sign for the respectful co-existence of humans and animals.

www.viertelfestival-noe.at/hybrid-orkestra

You can call the mobile phones of the Hybrid Orkestra (austrian cell phones +43 650 xxxx)

0650-2646959  0650-3984574  0650-2646950  0681-20340601
0650-3984479  0650-3984478  0650-2647012  0681-20249896
0650-2647005  0650-2646993  0650-2646990  0681-20247755
0650-2646989  0650-3984570  0650-2646972  0681-20249182
0650-2646978  0650-2646980  0650-3984480  0681-20246705

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CREDITS

Elektronic & Mounting: Zwax (Metalab)
Plattform Mount: Stefan John
Co-Construction: Clemens Rösch

Thanks to: Metalab, Geutebrück Consulting, Fam. Lutnik, Ingrid Vogel, Michaela Bartak, Larissa Bainschab, Gerhard Pucher, Simon Wegscheider, Oles Zupnik, Fam. Eichinger, Fam. Hofhansel, Sophie Ertel