Sound garden
Klanggarten is a three-part sound installation by the composer and sound artist Burkard Schmidl .
There are similar installations by other artists both inside and outside Germany. However, the term sound garden is protected by trademark law by Burkard Schmidl and is only used for the installations by this artist.
description
The sound installation Klanggarten was commissioned for the State Garden Show in 1990 in Würzburg . The 57-minute work ran in a loop during the day for half a year and was transmitted via twelve loudspeakers installed in trees. A separate channel and thus a different component of the composition was transmitted from each box . With these twelve discrete channels Schmidl sounded a meadow in the middle of the loudspeaker arrangement where the visitors could listen to the composition. Burkard Schmidl initially called this audiophile effect triple quadrophonics or "dozen phonons" . He interwoven nature and animal noises into the electronically generated compositions. Influences from classical music and musical styles from other cultures are reflected in the music.
At the same time the sound garden was presented at the “Festival of Hearing” in Erlangen. In 1993 Burkard Schmidl had the term Klanggarten registered as a trademark with the German Patent Office . In the same year the organizers of the International Garden Show Stuttgart EXPO commissioned him to compose another work for the loudspeaker arrangement with Klanggarten Vol.II. With the 9 million visitors to the IGA, the project became a crowd puller and in the following year Schmidl realized three sound installations at German garden shows at the same time.
The third and last part was created in 1999 for the state garden show in Olbersdorf and Zittau . Since then, all three projects have been performed at various major events, in parks and at art exhibitions. In addition to these temporary sound gardens, the relaxing character of the compositions meant that it was also set up as a music therapy facility in spa parks or in the geriatric area as permanent installations. The abundance of performances at major events made Klanggarten the most famous multi-channel sound installation in Germany and brought the genre to a large audience.
Performances temporarily
- 1990 - "Klanggarten Vol. I", LGS Würzburg
- 1990 - "Klanggarten Vol. I" "Festival of Hearing" in Erlangen
- 1993 - "Klanggarten Vol. II", IGA Stuttgart EXPO
- 1994 - "Klanggarten Vol. I", LGS Bad Dürrheim
- 1994 - "Klanggarten Vol. I", LGS Paderborn
- 1995 - "Klanggarten Vol. II", BUGA Cottbus
- 1997 - "Klanggarten Vol. I" on the occasion of the exhibition "Experience Field of the Senses" in Großenhain
- 1997 - "Klanggarten Vol. II", LGS Mosbach
- 1999 - "Klanggarten Vol. III", LGS Olbersdorf / Zittau
- 2001 - "Klanggarten Vol. II", court garden of the Würzburg residence
- 2002 - "Sound Garden" in Alzenau
- 2003 - Nature in Roth
- 2003 - Court garden of the Würzburg Residence
- 2004 - LGS Nordhausen
- 2005 - Contribution to the art exhibition "Search for traces" in Großenhain
- 2005 - Klanggarten art exhibition "Artwork 3" in Roth
- 2006 - “Sound Garden I” in the Hofgarten of the Würzburg Residence
- 2007 - "Klanggarten III" in Nieheim
- 2008 - "Sound Garden" in the Palmengarten in Frankfurt am Main
- 2009 - "Sound Garden Vol.III" at the garden show "Nature in Rain 2009"
- 2010 - "KlanggartenVol.III" at the garden show in Bad Nauheim
Fixed installations
- 1995 - Installation "Sound Garden" in Bad Sassendorf
- 1999 - Installation "Sound Garden" Bad Mergentheim
- 2000 - Installation "Sound Garden" Bad Kissingen
- 2002 - Installation "Sound Garden" Karlstadt
- 2005 - Installation "Sound Garden" in Bad Zwesten
- 2006 - Installation "Sound Garden" Meran / Italy