„Our failure to listen creates muted silence.
The ability to perceive silence is eliminated by noise.
Noise empowers us to sense patterns of sound.
The existence of sound enables the aptitude to listen.“

2022/09/24 6-channel audio performance in complete darkness, opening “kulturherbst 2022”, geislingen/steige

2024/10/25 6-channel audio performance in complete darkness, lab30 media festival, augsburg

2024/10/25 release “klangglomerat” on klanggold records, lim.ed. 25 tapes in box

auvikogue (consisting of peter schubert and andreas usenbenz) had been invited in 2022 by the town council of Geislingen/Steige to organize the opening event for the “kulturherbst”  with the joint theme “geislingen underworlds”.

as in 2018, with the audiovisual performance “maschinenfabrik” (performed at the wmf communication center), peter schubert and andreas usenbenz embarked on an acoustic journey. with their preference for collecting sound recordings in special places and transforming them into unusual, highly interpretative soundscapes, schubert and usenbenz set off into the underworlds. for their piece “klangglomerat”, they have visited various locations, including a cave, an abandoned old tunnel or a vaulted cellar to collect recordings, which can be roughly divided into the following categories:

on-site field recordings,
impulse responses,
interpretations (i.e. sound recordings of objects found on site that already found on site and already have their own history) and interventions.
these are, for example, recordings of a double bass in the vaulted cellar, of bowls and cymbals in the cave.

all these recordings (and only these recordings), either left in their original context or alienated down to the smallest particle,  have been layered, superimposed and condensed as the basis for their sound collage, which had been perfomed as a 6 channel audio concert in complete darkness.