Bill Fontana’s Silent Echoes will be playing at midnight (and until 4 a.m.) as part of the Ars Electronica Pre-Opening Walk. Using vibration sensors, the US sound artist makes the bells of Notre Dame audible, transmits their sounds to the ice caves of the Dachstein and lets them resound there as if in a duet with the sounds of the melting glacier. This site-specific duet in turn forms the basis for “sound bridges” to various places in Europe.
To mark the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth, the sound installation will be broadcast live from the ice caves on the Dachstein to St Mary’s Cathedral in Linz as part of the Ars Electronica Festival. Silent Echoes: Dachstein can also be experienced from 5-8 September at different times.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at
