Encounter Iced Sound 2.0
Ramon Landolt and Caterina Viguera
Plateforme10, 18.09 – 10.10.2024
(access closed from 4.10)
An urban pavilion to listen to the music of the glaciers. A harmonious collaboration between a musician and an architect. A fascinating work that brings beauty to glaciers threatened with extinction.
This immersive installation offers a unique experience: listening to the music of glaciers in a specially designed urban pavilion. Using recordings of the sounds of disappearing glaciers, Landolt composes a work blending electronic music and natural sounds, creating a symphony dedicated to the fragility of our environment. Viguera has designed a triangular wooden pavilion, open to natural light, to provide a listening space where these sounds mingle with urban noise, symbolizing the dialogue between nature and urbanization.
Project as part of the exhibition Watching the Glacier disappear www.artforglaciers.ch
Listening to the glacier sing. Or rather, listen to how it conducts a dialogue with the sounds of the city. Ramon Landolt visited the glaciers of Morteratsch, Zinal and Rhone and recorded their cracking, whispering, flowing and rumbling. These sounds were recorded in winter and summer between caves, seracs, crevasses and glacial lakes. He fuses this sound material with his own compositions and occasional improvisations of music “by and for glaciers”, to which the live ambient noises are added. Landolt has collaborated with architect Caterina Viguera to design a pavilion as a sound installation. Triangular in plan and open to natural light from above, it provides a listening space for the complex interferences of this music of transition and change. At the interface between electronic and electro-acoustic music and the landscape in its majestic fragility, Ramon Landolt composes the subtle score of an announced disappearance.
Bios:
Composer and musician Ramon Landolt (*1985, Flawil SG) studied jazz piano at the Lucerne School of Music and then with Phil Markowitz and Earl Howard in New York. In 2010, he co-founded the Heinz Herbert Trio, which was honoured with the European Jazz Network’s “Zenith Award” in 2019. The architect Caterina Viguera (* 1986 Barcelona, lives in Zurich) sees public space as a stage for collective desire and action and is committed to issues related to climate change.
