Secretly Growing Under My Skin

The soundtrack for the sound installation essentially consists of four different elements.

Firstly, there is a rower who moves us through "time". He is the ship or the boat, so to speak. It transports and frames the other elements. This rower could also be the supplier for "Noah's Ark - The Younger" or for the planned Mars mission with SpaceX's Starship.

An anchor point in the sound is the traditional song Dikoboda Sombe of the AKA Pygmies. This is symbolically set in the time and place from which we set out a long time ago, namely Africa.

From this song, a connection is made to a short piano piece by contemporary composer Juliane Klein, which was composed only recently. This creates an imaginary timeline to the present day.

A modulated sound of an extremely fast rotating black hole is suspended in the time course of the soundtrack as a kind of weight. This sound swells because another cosmic body is drawn into the black hole's horizon by its extremely high gravity, is swallowed up, so to speak, and disappears into the singularity.

The soundtrack is structured by other different rhythms. On the one hand, a humming or rumbling that could associatively be that of our earth or perhaps also be perceived as the siren of the Titanic steaming straight through the Arctic Ocean - let's see what happens.

Another montage associates a kind of knocking or heartbeat. Apparently it comes from a sleeping giant, perhaps in a vault, who is occasionally prone to cardiac arrhythmia because he is in deep sleep.

A sawing sound tries to interrupt the passage of time, in the sense of a fragmentation of the unchecked flow of time.