The Animals
Famished…frightened…fatigued…the animals come into focus. Reproachfully, they watch our movements, our actions. Powerless.

Collaborating with sound-designer Wenke Kleine-Benne, we have created deep sound sketches for the twelve animals displayed. The visual component juxtaposed  with the aural, provides an immersive backdrop to a real problem that exists outside the gallery door. 
 

Statement Wenke Kleine-Benne | Sound Design
With these sound designs we want to surround the drawings with further dimensions to enhance their expressiveness. Through the acoustic extension of a time sequence and a spatial depth the animals seem come to life. The animals seem to be moving in space. Their static standstill receives emotions. Their fragility receives a force. And the viewer is given back the patience to dive into the details of the drawings and to internalize them. The analogue naturalness in the visual illustration of the animals is countered by electronically processed soundscapes, which aims to restore the link between nature and our digitally shaped lifeworld.