SUSPENSION is a site-specific installation created for the Haus für Medienkunst. Nine piano wires hang from the ceiling, held taut by lead window sash weights.
The title refers both to the physical condition of the installation and to the musical concept of holding a note from one chord into the next.
Each string is sustained through electromagnetic feedback. There is no score or sequence — the strings find their own resonant frequencies, drifting as conditions in the room shift. The surrounding strings are tuned so that their overtones periodically align with those of the central string, creating moments of clear consonance that emerge and dissolve within a diffuse harmonic field.
Below is a one-hour recording of the installation at night during a rainstorm, which you can faintly hear at the edges of the recording. The recording was made with a simple ORTF Neumann KM184 stereo pair in the center of the room. Although no one was in the space, the building creaks, clicks, and groans sporadically.
Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany, 2026 (Part of ANTIPHON)