ALTERNATIVE SOCIAL SYSTEMS / EXERCISE V: RETUNE
ALTERNATIVE SOCIAL SYSTEMS / EXERCISE V: RETUNE
installation
chalk on carpet
2 m x 0,55 m
30 kg organ-pipe metal
12 m x 7 m
Markuskirche Hannover 2021
photos: Lindner & Steinbrenner
The now lost romantic organ of the Church has been retuned in 1938 in order to adopt it to the baroque ideal of sound which at that time was believed to be more "arian" than the romantic, emotional and individual sound of the 19th century. Up until the 1980s even new organs have been built in this tradition of the "neo-baroque"-sound ideal, before it was put into question. Using the assumed amount of 1938´s extracted organ-pipe metal - ca. 30 kg according to the documents of the organ builder - we tried to materialize the memory of the vanished romantic sound in this church.