LANding

(CD relating to the corresponding exhibition project)

Edited by Stefan Bidner

published Triton Verlag, Vienna 2000
Audio CD, 74 min. runtime,

booklet, 28 p. with coloured images, additional in cartridge 14,2 x 12,4 cm

With audio contributions by

T. Feuerstein, fon, F. Graf u.a. Bildbeitr. v. M. Hammer, C. Hinterhuber, F. Pomassl u.a. Text v. T. Feuerstein.

»Get this hat to the moon for me till 1970.« »Okay, Mister President« That’s how the Intro of the acoustic excursion on the Cd »LANding« sounds. It’s a known story. A new narration about the old easiness of the first moon landing. Soundscapes made up of cracking, modular sequences and modular noise design the universe in atmospheric density. 30 years after the landing on the moon and the development of the military ARPAnet, austrian sound-experts, like Franz Pomassl and fon met, to compose the enmeshment of both happenings. Published by the bureau of intermedial communication tranfer in Innsbruck – in name Stefan Bidner and Thomas Feuerstein – the CD is the final product of the corresponding exhibition »Landing«, that took place in the Ferdinandeum Innsbruck.

In the representative track titles, an adumbrated radio play structure can be found: The CD starts with »Ignition« (firing) by Bidner and Feuerstein and ends with an orgiastic »Space oddity« by Daughters of the Moon. For a short time, the sexyness of the unknown replaces the spheric noise, » …then they (the astronauts) dwindle back into a well-deserved sleep.«

Different from the suggestion of the name »Landing«, it is not the goal to arrive, but to rest in transition. The local sound-worker fly connected through the world-wide internet. The historic happening thereby demonstrates the nostalgic, recurrating focus for negotiation on technologic and social development. (…)

summary from a text by Vera Tollmann / springerin.at