Contributions: Hartmut von Tryller, Frank Haßelkus, Michel-R. Flechtner, Oscar Wiggli
112 x 21 cm
72 pages
19 b/w illustrations
bound
Editions IROISE, 1998
2nd edition 2000
ISBN 2-940091-06-4
CHF 22.- / 13.75 Euros
 | One evening two worlds meet up - a mysterious underground world, accessible to us thanks only to technology, and the non-material world from which dreams originate.
Is it possible to transmit sounds down into a vast methane-gas-filled cavern with a volume of more than 300,000 m?? And if so, how do sounds behave in methane gas at a pressure of 100 bar? Oscar Wiggli - composer and sculptor - put these and other questions in 1994 in Bochum, Germany to the cavern specialist Hartmut von Tryller, managing director of SOCON, an internationally operating cavern surveying company.
The artist and the manager, both curious and at the same time fascinated, commenced work together on the experiment to get answers to a whole range of questions.
This book shows how this experiment, which seemed quite impossible in the beginning, slowly took on shape and was eventually carried out in spring 1998.
The sounds created during this experiment provided Oscar Wiggli with raw material for various compositions, which have been released on CD under the title of GUAREC. In the accompanying booklet the composer talks about his compositions (with text by Hartmut von Tryller and Oscar Wiggli).
Édité en français
Published in English |
Biography:
| | | 1927 | born in Solothurn | | 1946 | school-leaving exams | | 1946-1949 | apprenticeship as a mechanic | | 1949-1951 | studied general sciences and architecture at Zurich University | | 1951 | travelled to Scandinavia and France, started artistic activities in Paris | | 1955 | first wrought-iron sculptures | | since 1956 | studios in Montrouge near Paris and in Muriaux in Switzerland | | 1968-1976 | developed further his knowledge of the craft with practising blacksmiths | | 1981 | synthesizer course in Paris | | 1982 | construction of a synthesizer with wife Janine | | from 1982 | investigation of sounds and musical compositions for own exhibitions | | | | Exhibitions - a selection:
| | | 1968 | Civic Art Gallery, Bochum | | 1969 | Gimpel & Hanover Gallery, Zurich | | 1972 | Bern Art Gallery | | 1980 | Venice Biennial, Swiss Pavilion | | 1980 | Pacific Design Centre, Los Angeles | | 1987 | Medici Gallery, Solothurn | | 1994 | Bochum Museum | | 1995 | Burgdorf Art Gallery | | 1998 | Krebs Gallery, Bern |
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BCS Value microC (Generation 4)
In many parts of Europe underground cavities created by mining exist under surface areas that are now populated.