Architectural forms are sounds we hear. Urban architecture is a sound box: it shapes a space, wherein the range of sounds which surround us is resounded and reflected. In the video Stadtmusik, the artist deals with sound in cities, by analysing sound structures which are triggered by urban buildings and facilities. He focuses on the aspect of movement in the city, which reinforces a dynamic experience of the urban soundscape: particular sounds emerge through movement, sound and its timbre evolves from material and space.

The thesis presented in this regard would therefore be that the specifically aesthetic quality of such animated perception is absent from the forms of audiovisual representation which are already considered natural (such as indicating movement by means of a tracking shot): In its fragmentation of the continuum of perception, the subjective geometry which defines space through intervals of time, illustrates a manner of experience which could remain submerged because it is already so familiar.

Dietmar Offenhuber (Austria, 1973), studied Architecture. 1995–96 Group Relais, in collaboration with Manuel Schilcher and Gerda Palmetshofer. Worked at the Ars Electronica Futurelab until 1997. Teaches at the FHS Hagenberg since 2000, and in 2002 also at the Art University Linz.Works with Animation, Virtual Environments and Exhibition Planning.

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Sam Auinger (Austria, 1956) since the early ‘80s, he has been intensively involved with questions of composition, computer music, sound design and psychoacoustics. He has done work for film, theater, radio, video, exhibitions and festivals in Europe and the US. Since 1989, he has repeatedly collaborated with Bruce Odland on sound installations, and since 1999 with composer and bassist Johannes Strobl (TamTamClub).

Hanne Strobl