“I’m as nervous as a child who has just been given a toy,” says Carlus Padrissa. The head of the Spanish artist group La Fura dels Baus will be designing the Linz Sound Cloud under the title “Pioneers – 52 Hz” in the Donaupark on Saturday, September 7th (8.30 p.m.). The group, which was already responsible for the Sound Cloud 2018, stands for spectacular productions.
This year, the focus is on eight pioneers who carried out their research despite great opposition, from Nikola Tesla to Johannes Kepler, from Jane Goodall to Marie Curie. “It will be a journey from the depths of the oceans to the vastness of space,” promises Rene Esterbauer, commercial director of LIVA, which organizes the sound cloud. The first pioneer will be a whale (together with whale researcher Roger Payne) – which also explains the title addition 52 hertz. Whales usually communicate at 42 hertz. Since 52 hertz tones keep cropping up in the deep sea, it is assumed that these tones could come from a previously unknown species of whale. La Fura dels Baus has built a giant whale figure that allows it to rise and fall in the Danube.
The sound cloud is accompanied by Gustav Holst’s Planet Suite, which was first performed in 1918 and adapted for the sound cloud. Its seven movements are dedicated to the planets Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Each movement is assigned to one of the pioneers, with Padrissa placing Earth/Whale/Payne separately at the beginning and end.
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