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Sound Cube (2022)

UK Premiere

Venue

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
BN1 9RA

Date & time

Monday 7th March – Sunday 13th March 2022
10.00 – 17.00

© Bernhard Leitner

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.

Bernhard Leitner (b. 1938, Austria) studied Architecture at the Technical University in Vienna. Lived from 1968 until 1983 in New York City. Worked first with the Department of City Planning, then as Associate Professor at New York University, Co-director of “Urban Design Studies: Humanistic Perspectives”1983–1986 in Berlin. 1987–2005 Professor for Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Bernhard Leitner’s work in Sound Architecture and Sound-Space-Sculpture goes back to his artistic-empirical research (1969–1975) in New York, i.e. to his physical-acoustic analyses on experiences of spaces that are formed, designed and composed with the sculptural material Sound. Three-dimensional movements of sounds shape new architectural spaces. The scale of his work reaches from large permanent urban architectural installations (Le Cylindre Sonore, Paris; Sound Field 1020 Vienna; Sound Space Technical University Berlin) to body-related sculptures (Sound Chair; Vertical Space for one Person; Sound Arch; Sound Suit). 

Visitor information

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
University of Sussex
Gardner Centre Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 9RA

www.attenboroughcentre.com
info@attenboroughcentre.com
01273 678822 

Opening hours

Monday 7th March – Sunday 13th March 2022
10.00 – 17.00 daily

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