Forest 2 @ Glow 2007

From 5.11.07 until the 11.11.07 i had the chance to stay in Eindhoven. Forest 2 had been commissioned by Curators Tom Groll and Bettina Pelz for the Glow Festival 2007. It was exciting to me, since Hans Peter Kuhn was also exhibiting, whose work i was aware of since i started my research on sound art.
I must say i was very nervous, since it was a new level for me. All international Artists, big expectations, an audience of potentially 50.000 people. It had to work... and it really did.
You can find some images if you follow the link to the Glow Festival. The curators were really nice, funny and humorous people who did their utmost best for their artists. Nuff respect as they'd say in Jamaica. It was still an odd experience, being the only "Sound Guy" among all this Light Artists and i really found out once more, that this is THE medium for me.. Sound and listening.. I had some wonderful experiences. For example the second day of the opening we had many visitors. We were just hanging out by the installation when there was a man walking past us who carried his baby on his back. He was laughing a lot and so were we, since the baby had picked up one of the sounds i had designed for the installation and was making the same sound over and over again. Then i knew i had done a good job : )

I want to thank Chris Ziegler a lot, who invited me to come along and whose work forest 2 mainly is. He is such a character and if you get a chance to work with him, do so.. !
I also met some great people at the united-c, which was the theatre that was housing the installation.. Great place, great people, great festival.. even though it was "just about light"..
oh.. before i forget.. i had a really good conversation with a mad guy from mexico named gustavo.. he was one of the artist and he is responsible for the public lighting system in mexico city.. we were talking about listening and he and his crazy daughters made me aware of the fact again how listening is something that happens with our whole body.. just like we perceive light through our bones, sound as well is perceived with our whole body.. thanks for that !!!

thanks for listening, blog

alexandre