“We see in order to move. We move in order to see.” William Gibson

Once in endless motion as children, today we only move our heads. Thoughts flow … but can they alone really grasp the meaning of life? Like dancers, like athletes or simply like children, we let ourselves drift here to these sound lights, deep inside the mountain and we realize: The body in action brings new vision, new ideas, new freedom for the human being.

With ‘Motion Scape’ and ‘PianoMetalSpace // SoundLinks’, the two media artists Rombout Frieling and Winfried Ritsch joined forces to create an extraordinary sound and light installation in the Dom im Berg. The lighting installation inside the Schlossberg in Graz created contrasts that encouraged human movement. In addition, Rombout Frieling’s light art controlled Winfried Ritsch’s concert installation with a robotic piano player and metal plates. The ‘sound links’ of the algorithmically controlled piano hit the metal sound plates in real time and created an extraordinary ambient sound in the main room through resonances that reacted to movement.

KLANGLICHT 2018

Location: Dom im Berg

As a designer, technician and Innovation Fellow at the Royal College of Art, Dutch artist Rombout Frieling is convinced that the human body has unjustifiably lost importance in the age of technology. Frieling’s works encourage viewers to interact with their surroundings in a new way, with his holistic human approach always focusing on movement.

In addition to his own compositions, Graz-based media artist Winfried Ritsch also implements innovative concepts from the media art laboratory and the artists’ initiatives FOND, TONTO and mur.at in his studio Algorythmics . His artistic portfolio includes sound sculptures, performances and the development of computer music systems. Winfried Ritsch is an associate professor at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. His sound installation ‘PianoMetalSpace // SoundLinks’ will continue to provide an impressive sound backdrop in the Dom im Berg after Klanglicht 2018.