Pe Lang and Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri — Gravity sounds

Gravity sounds

Pe Lang & Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri

25 November 2023, 4.00 pm
Duration: 30 min

Temporary sound installation curated by Zaira Oram

Wasserturm, Zurich
Address: Badweg 10, 8001-CH Zurich

For the latest project at the Wasserturm in Zurich, OTO SOUND MUSEUM presents an experimental intervention entitled Gravity sounds by artists Pe Lang & Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri. As peculiar to their practices – intersected for a long time – the artists construct a site-specific mechanism that expands on a large scale along the verticality of the tower, transforming it into an enormous musical instrument. Interested in the theme of gravity and the laws of physics, the artists here convert the tower into a sound object that has never existed before, inventing a musical tuning system from the spatial features of the building which soars four floors into the sky. Thanks to the imagined mechanism and the activation of a complex behaviour, Gravity sounds will offer a sonic experience that can return different harmonies and stages of vibration evoking the sound of water.

The intervention Gravity sounds takes the form of an ephemeral installation offering a collective listening diffused in the urban space that will take place on 25 November at 4 p.m. and closes the cycle of projects realised at the Wasserturm between 2022 and 2023.