A loom becomes a musical instrument and the weaving room becomes a sound installation. In Perla-Mode, people weave and make music, jam and work, improvise and fiddle with cables and threads.
Sound artist and musician Stini Arn presents the second stage of her Webstall project at message salon. The first Webstall took place this summer in Pignia (GR), in a former stable. Webstall brings together musicians, artists and weavers. For “Webstall gibt Stoff” at Perla-Mode, Stini Arn has once again invited musicians to interact with the loom, tune it, sample it, play on it and accompany it.
The rhythmic sounds of the loom as a working instrument are electronically amplified using pickups. While threads are woven into a textile on the loom, the sounds of the instruments interweave with the sound of the working loom. The improvisations, sound collages and concerts during the exhibition will be recorded and remixed by Stini Arn on a CD, the cover of which will be made from the fabric woven in the Perla-Mode, and released at the end of the exhibition.
Stini Arn is interested in the sounds and rhythms of work processes and collects everyday sounds and noises. Her research into the sounds of the handloom began with the sounds of her childhood. Her mother was a weaver and Stini Arn absorbed the sounds from the workshop into her memories at an early age. In the installation “Webstall gibt Stoff”, a traditional, almost vanished craft meets electronic, contemporary music and thus opens up space for associations – from the interweaving of sounds into a carpet of sound, to the artistic network or the interweaving of the World Wide Web.
At the vernissage in Perla-Mode, Andrea Clavadetscher will play electronic sounds and the experimental rock band suahelimassiv (Davix, Franziska Koch, Roland Saum) will play to the sounds and rhythms of the loom. The exhibition will include a remix of the weaving loom in Pignia on CD, as well as drawings by Ingo Giezendanner (GRRRR), which were created in the weaving stable in Pignia.
Loom: Verena Menti, Sound engineering: Christian Frick, Video: Andrea Reisner, Roberto Quarella, Drawings: GRRRR
Webstall is supported by Eclectic Futur Foundation; Pro Helvetia/Swiss Arts Council