End of absence

"Each now is the time, the space", John Cage wrote in “2 Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance“.

Days, seasons, life itself - the cyclic nature of time versus its linear perception lie at the center of End of Absence.

As a site-specific sound installation for the I-Park Environmental Arts Biennale, this concept was transformed into a six-channel composition consisting of three asynchronous loops. Using only field recordings from the park environment and vocal recordings, the sounds are arranged in a way that the single sound elements are cyclic – they reoccur, they overlap, they create parallel layers. At the same time, moments of stillness occur.

Situated within a circle of pine trees, the audience was encouraged to immerse themselves in the interplay of auditory elements—the resonant echoes of the immediate surroundings and the harmonious interweaving of musical arrangements—which coalesced and transformed into an ever-changing soundscape.