vadoze zone

From a physical perspective, light and sound are perceptible waves – acoustic, electroacoustic, electromagnetic, visual. The vibrations can be translated through different methods: light becomes audible and sound becomes visible. The duo Farah Wind and Helin Sezen Korkmaz are experimenting with self-made light-sound converters in the »vadoze zone«. They combine their technical tools with transducers and piezos with synthesizers and their own voices. 

At performance time – seven minutes before sunset – the street lights will gradually come on while the rest of the city falls into twilight, the sky slowly turns dark blue and the surroundings fade into darkness. The inspiration for the composition, in which the lighting conditions determine the structure of the piece, is a place that in geology is called the »unsaturated zone«. 

The »vadoze zone« is a musical structure but also an analogy to existing with the unpredictable and the resistance that follows from it.

Funded by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW