Waldstueck [section of a forest]

What can be heard is 24-hour, unedited field recording from a section of a forest. The audio recording has been transferred to a web server and will be successively deleted, randomly and automatically, over a period of three years (on average, and subdivided into small and smallest units, approx. 78 seconds per day). After three years, nothing more will be able to be heard. The deletion process began on February 5, 2008.

The 24-hour audio recording was made by Christoph Korn on June 22 and 23, 2007. The section of the forest where the recording took place is located near Dachau/Germany.
"Section of a Forest" is solely a piece of work about this section of a forest. No statement is made about "Dachau", neither is there an intention to do so. The work, however, searches for the proximity to what "Dachau" stands for, about which it cannot say anything.
 
     
 
 
 

Section of a Forest, where the audio recording took place. Photo taken on June 22, 2007.

  
     
 
"Waldstueck".Christoph Korn, © 2008
Editor : Manfred Hess (radioplay, Hessischer Rundfunk), Frank Kämpfer (Forum for New Music, Deutschlandfunk)
WEB Development: Stefan Hartmann, wemove digital solutions, Berlin

“Section of a Forest” has been carried out in an intermedial connection of radioplay, web and space-oriented sound installation.

Start of web installation: February 5, 2008.
Premiere of sound installation: April 4 to 6, 2008 during the festival “Humanity and Composition” of the Forum for New Music, Deutschlandfunk/Cologne.
Premiere broadcast of the radioplay: winter 2008, Hessischer Rundfunk/Frankfurt.
  
 

 

Text by Achim Wollscheid    Text by Marcel Stoetzler     enter project