Horizon Noise

Media Art, Sound Art
ONB Art Space, Austrian national library, Vienna; 2023

As part of the ONB-Labs Art Program at the National Library Austria Horizon Noise works with the digital collection of postcards from the Library‘s digital archive (AKON). It experiments with the translation between images and sounds. As the horizon stands for distance and desires, postcards as well are screens of projections for the idea of a place, staging the view and horizon accordingly. Horizon Noise visits and re-imagines different places with help of the horizon pictured on postcards and the acoustic translation of this thin line between earth and sky. The horizon sets the tone, the missing views of the built or natural landscapes on the postcards is replaced by the melody of the horizon – or skyline in cities –, sometimes only interrupted by a postcard’s frame. Scrolling between mountain and seaside, one can listen to the differences between the horizons’ melodies ringing out from a distant, undifferentiated noise as well as between natural and man-made horizons.

Horizon Noise at digital Art Space of National library of Austria

Exhibitions:
Literaturmuseum, National Library of Austria, Vienna, 2023
Ars Electronica Festival Campus, Linz, 2023