What connects the Badlands, the burnt-out ochre to rust-coloured clay desert in Granada, Spain, with the vitriol blue Rhône glacier near the Furka Pass, Switzerland?
Both are places of transformation. The Badlands, dried out by the heat, are expanding - the glaciers are retreating. Other dimensions of time prevail here. Man is an ephemeral visitor.

Seismographic sketches using frottage technique directly on the dried earth and ice, as well as the sounds of viola and voice explore the surfaces visually, haptically and sonically. Sound recordings and drawings/Son-Icons form the basis of multiple artistic translations into analogue and digital sounds and visuals.

During the solo performance, these extreme landscapes meet. The soloist oscillates between these charged arenas with voice and viola. The audience experiences the expansion of the drawings into the three-dimensional. The Son-Icons move and become a landscape of musical scores through the panoramic projection – visual, sonic and physically accessible as an immersive multidimensional space. New resonating bodies and spaces emerge. And further associations and emotional spaces are formed in the minds of the audience.

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Premiered at the Fest der Künste, Zurich University of the Arts 2009.
Thanks to the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology for the residency.