BANGALORE BANG ! by Peter Simon, Freya Hattenberger

The composition "Bangalore Bang - Sound as Ornament" was created from audio material collected on site during their residency at the Goethe Institute / Max Mueller Bhavan in Bangalore, India. Peter Simon and Freya Hattenberger were particularly interested in recording the acoustic ‘fingerprint‘ of the country's rapidly growing megacity and IT metropolis. In their audio piece, they consider the interplay of urbanism and city planning and engage with the city's residents and their lives. Materiality, speed, urban structure and the fluid reality of Indian culture form an ornament of sound in their composition. Simon and Hattenberger explored buildings in brutalist architecture in Bangalore and traced their significance in public-political processes. The contrasts between the inner and outer sounds of the architecture are the core of this composition.
They focused on the Visvesvaraya Center, built 1974 - 1980 by Charles Correa, one of India's most important architects. His buildings are the physical manifestations of modernity and progress. The Visvesvaraya Center in Bangalore represents a nodal point of these traditions.
On the other hand, the artists also made recordings in the famous Raman Research Institute Library and were lucky to interview the architect of this beautiful brutalist building Mr. P.K. Venkataramanan. Placed on a highly wooded site, the library is a part of the Theoretical Physics Laboratory in the Institute. The exposed concrete façade blends with the older buildings on campus while in congruence merging with the site’s thick grove of eucalyptus trees.

TEXTURES

electronic, soundscape, soundtracks,
experimental

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