In my work series "Transit", I investigate in-between spaces and their acoustic territories. These are places to which we regularly expose ourselves and which permeate our society in a formative way. Those places are often found at the edges of social space and connect incompatible human states and depict them. They are characterized above all by their specific acoustic properties, which I will explore more deeply in my series of works. In their nature, they allow conclusions to be drawn about the norms and values of the society that produces them and to which they directly relate. Together they internalize qualities of change, compensation and reflection.

For the artistic project in the context of the Experimance Festival, I put the city of Saarbrücken as (a kind of) in-between space and concrete acoustic territory, in the focus of my work. Saarbrücken is the "center on the borders" and thus a kind of in-between space, with an inherent specific quality. Commuters go to work here, people from the region shop here, and various political or media institutions have their headquarters here. Border regions, like Saarbrücken, often have their own challenges in terms of increased crime, unemployment or drug trafficking. Also in relation to my own experience living there for seven years, I formulate the central questions of the work: What makes the capital of Saarland an in-between space? How do people relate to it? What significance and role does the acoustic nature of the surroundings play in this context?

To answer this questions, I was investigating in the course of a two weeks stay the acoustic nature of the place by going into the archive, visiting different places, conducting interviews, and making sound recordings and field recordings. This would help me to conclude the (acousmatic) experiences that people have in Saarbrücken. The resulting material would then be interpreted, deconstructed and modified or extended. The result of this process is an - entire sound artwork - that captures the acoustic materiality of Saarbrücken, which is both meaning-bearing and meaning-constructing and thus maps the complex network of relationships between people and the city in a new way.

The result, "Transit: Saarbrücken“ as an oversized-sounding sound object was reproduced in a performance. The investigations of the two-week project trip within the framework of the Experimance Festival were thus presented to the audience in a 30-minute performance. You can listen to the work here on Bandcamp. Let me know what you think.