
Sound Cube (2022)
UK Premiere
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
BN1 9RA
Monday 7th March – Sunday 13th March 2022
10.00 – 17.00

Bernhard Leitner is considered a pioneer of the art form generally referred to as sound installation. He introduced sound to the installation space, allowing the installation space to emerge through the sound. Leitner, who actually studied architecture, has been a visionary ever since the very start of his artistic career. His sculptures—which he refers to as “sound-space objects”—and installations are the result of long, complex processes of development. In precise sketches and workbooks, he first approaches the sculptural, architectural qualities of sound in theory.
He undertakes, as it were, foundational scientific research by studying frequencies, volumes, movements and combinations of sounds and their impact on the body, sketching possible spatial figures, such as cubes, corridors, fields, pipes, and exploring the impact of bodily posture on acoustic perception. In 1968 Leitner moved to New York, where he concretely began working on sound-space studies in his studio. He developed multi-channel compositions using sound recordings that were not musically conceived, from which he extracted specific sound material and combined it in work-specific series of sounds. He then notated these series using visual codes that he himself developed consisting of letter combinations on rolls of paper, and transferred them to perforated tape.

Visitor information
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
University of Sussex
Gardner Centre Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 9RA
www.attenboroughcentre.com
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01273 678822
Opening hours
Monday 7th March – Sunday 13th March 2022
10.00 – 17.00 daily
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