From May 28 - July 11, open daily from 11 am - 5 pm
Opening: May 27, 6:30 pm

Since 1985 Andreas Oldörp’s focus has been on the interrelations of sound and space. In 1988, he started to produce installations and sculptures of “constant” sounds that generate complex sound tissues variable in space.

In his work, Oldörp does not make use of any electronic sound generators. In the Minorite Church, he draws on quite unusual analogous sound sources: in his “Singing Flames”, gas flames cause the air columns in glass cylinders to oscillate, and besides their candle-bright light they also generate a space-filling and overtone-rich sound tissue.

The carefully built and also visually elaborate constructions orientate themselves along the lines of their surrounding site or set spatial points of reference from which the sounds disperse into the room. Oldörp repeatedly falls back on interval constellations to generate homogenous fields of accords and hovering patterns relating to the surrounding space in manifold ways.

This soundscape is inscribed in the acoustic conditions of the room and set free in its diversity only through motion; at times, a minimal turn is enough to enter new areas of the “sound space”.
Oldörp regards this process as “individual positioning”. Reflections about an individual process of self-discovery are inherent to his sound architectures and never stop synchronizing outer stimuli and inner experiences.

Markus Steffens

www.oldoerp.de