Noise from the outside

Under the heading of Noise from the outside, different artists of the project We’ll be making lots of noise create educational projects concerned with the exploration of the sound and noise landscapes surrounding us.

On this occasion, Gropius Bau also invited the electronic music composer LUPUS to develop a piece as part of his 6-month internship within the project We’ll be making lots of noise. The outcome of this process is rECoNStrUcTIVe, a work that deploys LUPUS’s audiovisual landscapes for the visitors to interact with.

For the all-day sound performance rECoNStrUcTIVe, LUPUS works reconstructively with field recordings meaning that each composition is based on a spatial sound recording. The 16 resulting compositions are then used for LUPUS to improvise with using two artificial intelligences.

Specially conceived for the Gropius Bau, the project We’ll be making lots of noise explores the production and perception of noise in its various forms. In addition to a stage area, the Gropius Bau’s spaces are also outfitted with noise machines and a listening station, which will continue to evolve as part of the events.

Artist Catriona Shaw and musician Frèd Bigot have been working together since 2002 in the context of various art, sound and educational projects. They performed and exhibited at numerous international institutions, clubs and festivals including Fondation Cartier, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Berghain. They have also run diverse engagement and participation projects for schools, museums and galleries since 2009.