"The installation is activated once an hour. At the top of the hour the bells start to sway. After six minutes their swinging is strong enough to make a sound. The bells ring for three and a half minutes. All this is recorded live and saved on storage devices. Later on, the recorded sound is played back through these broadband speakers and, in the course of playing, it is manipulated and transformed. The sound processing is mainly based on the delay, slowdown, lowering the tone, cutting out the strike note and reducing it to a uniform, continuous sound. Then, another processing takes place and now the sound comes from the speakers that are behind these metal structures. This time, it is a completely abstract, continuous, and very low-frequency sound, which induces a resonance in the lockers, but also in the architecture, people and again in the bells" - Konrad Smoleński in conversation with Contemporary Lynx.
Polish Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2013
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
Konrad Smoleński
Venice, May 31, 2013
video © Contemporary Lynx
