Habitat 23

Habitat 23 is a site-specific audio installation created in collaboration with Fabian Lanzmaier. At its core are specially built parabolic reflectors, designed to project tightly focused beams of sound into the surrounding landscape. The topography and its acoustic reflections are not just a backdrop but an active material of the work, shaping and reshaping the sonic field to form an audio imprint of place.

The installation draws on recordings gathered within the encircled site as well as live sound picked up by microphones, which are routed through feedback networks and further processed in real time. The presence of visitors, the movements of its inhabitants, the shifting weather [wind, rain, the crackle of a fireplace] continuously feed into these audio circuits, transforming the installation into a perpetually evolving environment.

Over the course of ten days, a temporary habitat emerges: an open laboratory where microphones, speakers, and processing chains are rearranged and tested in multiple constellations and thereby turning the site itself into an instrument.