Room Tone
2008

Sound moves between inside and outside. It disturbs what may appear static while also providing moments of deep connection. It flows through the environment as temporal material lending dramatically to the experiences we have of being in particular buildings.

Room Tone is a project that attempts to instigate conversation between sound and architecture, starting with a set of three audio recordings of the artist’s apartment in Berlin. Trying to sound the space, the recordings document the ambient, material and dimensional conditions of the apartment. The audio recordings were then sent to architects, designers and artists around the world whose task was to make a physical model of the apartment using the sounds as their only source of information. In this way, a process of translation and interpretation developed, incorporating an understanding, however factual or fantastical, of the auditory into rendering a spatial form.

Originally developed for Tuned City, Berlin, and exhibited in different settings, including Ybakatu Gallery, Curitiba, and STUK, Leuven.

With participating architects, designers and artists:
Carlos Campos, Buenos Aires
Lise Laurberg, Copenhagen
Yeoryia Manolopoulou, London 
Jonathan Mosley + Sophie Warren, Bristol
Anna-Kristina Netzel, Berlin
Valeria Merlini, Berlin
Margit Leisner, Curitiba
Daniela Oroquieta, Santiago de Chile
Anke Wünschmann + Achim Wollscheid, Frankfurt
Reinhard Brügmann, Berlin
Lewis & Taggart, Bergen
Roberto Arad & Rafael Lino, Curitiba
Martina Schaaf, Potsdam
Aneta Mudronja Pletenac, Zagreb
Coletivo Interluxartelivre, Curitiba
Guilherme Caldas, Curitiba
Joana Corona e C.L.Salvaro, Curitiba
Liz Sandoval, Curitiba
Malu e João de Lara, Curitiba
Margit Leisner, Curitiba
Mário Sampaio, Curitiba
Paulo Chiesa e alunos do curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da UFPR, Curitiba