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A sound and light installation created for the site specific exhibition Treasures in the cellar of the old Königstadt Brewery in central Berlin.
Three turntables all play the same wordless gospel tune, recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in 1927. Lights attached to the each turntable vary in strength with the speed of the records. Both the speed and the glow of light is controlled separately for each turntable by a computer. The room falls in and out of darkness as the hymn goes from slow mutter to normal speed, creating a sensation of standing in the midst of a ghostly choir that is continuously falling asleep and waking up again.
[click on the image to watch a documentation video]
dark was the night cold was the ground (2006)