Lasse-Marc Riek

Within the exhibition "FLOW" by Evangelos Papadopoulos at the Museum Ratingen, Lasse-Marc Riek creates two sonic interventions. The sound for the video work "FLOW" is generated using a root. Riek explores the object with specialized contact microphones, capturing and creating sounds from it. Additionally, ambient sounds and insect noises from the tree are incorporated, representing the external environment of the root. These sounds are both strange and mysterious, with an associative tapping evolving into a sonic, microscopic investigation of the object. A stimulating dialogue emerges between the digital form and the sound.

During the construction of the installation for the "FLOW" exhibition, Riek recorded the sounds produced while the artworks were being developed. This includes the screwing of sheetrock and wooden rods, the breaking of boards, and their arrangement in the space. Riek attached microphones to the objects, acoustically capturing the process of shaping the form. The physical actions of Evangelos Papadopoulos thus receive an auditory translation. Riek is particularly interested in the sounds that occupy the in-between spaces, which often go unnoticed. He composes these creation process sounds into a new sound piece.

(Text: Wilko Austermann)