Permanent installation by Mark Bain in cooperation with b&k, Arno Brandlhuber
 
// Opening: 22/01/2010 with performance by Mark Bain
// Brunnenstr. 9, 10119 Berlin-Mitte
// Public transport: U Rosenthalerplatz
 
The building Brunnenstraße 9 is a completely new construction over the husks of two older, unfinished building projects from the 90s. Designed by architect Arno Brandlhuber, the construction makes use of the existing basements of the abandoned projects, over which a very light and transparent, five storey, concrete structure is built. The sound artist Mark Bain was involved in the construction process from the beginning to develop a site-specific work that transformed the whole building into a sound installation. He implanted a system of geodata and seismic sensors into the structure, embedding sensors into wet concrete as it was laid. The raw signals of these sensors are fed into a permanent generative audio composition that passers-by can listen to by plugging headphones into public headphone jacks that are embedded in the building’s façade. The installation was commissioned by tuned city in 2008.
 
> www.tunedcity.de
> See also > PUT YOUR EAR ON THE WALL
 
Photo: Clemens Vogel.