-a series of fm transmittors, emitting interviews on the subject of mourning over fm frequencies.
(sorted with the help of SCHRIKDRAAD.
-tune in the radio from one interview to the next, or even the regular music stations.
(das radio)
-a set of headphones through which one can hear more interviews

-a microphone which feeds the ambiant conversations into the audio played in the headphones

-a computer processing the live mic input (using ardour open source software)
(external sound card kindly lent by STEIM).

experiments of the last weeks will prove telling. some ideas include:

-an installation in the staircase involving distance mourning accounts.
-an installation around a table with a live input mic feeding into the audio heard in the headphones, relating to the 'dead body'.
-a radio which emits different mourning accounts, different frequencies which you can tune into.

scans of sketches to come...

an installation designed to plunge the visitor into a auditory mourning space. The listening apparatuses are placed in hot spots where people usually cluster to chat or order a drink, thereby placing the listener in a very public position while hearing recounts of various mourning experiences. The installation is site specific, using WORM's bar space to incite reflection upon the taboo of death/mourning and the fear of nurturing a consciousness of death in the public sphere.

an image of a typical 'party' night at WORM (with an idea of how/where the audio apparatuses would be integrated):

i am currently conducting more interviews on the subject of mourning and thinking about how i will edit this audio material. i will not put the audio material online as i have done with the video documentation because of the personal nature of the material. i prefer it to be heard in the context of the space rather than out of context on a web page...

see sketches page, for detailed visual documentation.

making many experiments towards a physical intallation which would transform audio recounts of mourning into inaudible water disruptions...

see sketches page, for detailed visual documentation.

interviews:

what does the space of mourning feel/look like for each individual? i have been asking people how they experienced mourning and various other questions surrounding that experience in a interview.

in parallel with the experimentations i have been documenting on the sketches page, i have began giving people boxes which ask a similar question but leaves of course liberty to react upon it in any way or medium, abstract of literal.
an image of the boxes below:

the note inside the boxes was wrapped in a soft white cotton:

to use layers of audio (voice from interviews) with a low pass filter, resulting in only the lower frequencies being 'passed'.
these frequencies render the audio 'incoherent' in terms of transforming the once 'understandable' speech.
as the visitor [in the mourning space] approaches the projected image, the voices are slowly filtered, become imcomprehensible lower frequency sounds which make the water onto which video is projected vibrate.

it could look something like this...

[11.2006]

eulogy. death, dislocated both geographically and in temporality.
tem·po·ral·i·ty (tmp-rl-t) Pronunciation Key Audio pronunciation of "temporality" [P] n. pl. tem·po·ral·i·ties

1. The condition of being temporal or bounded in time.

2. temporalities Temporal possessions, especially of the Church or clergy.

to make a eulogy by using the classical elegiac structures (as algorythms) to edit video footage.