Into the Sun

Elisabeth Schimana (AT)

An imaginary acoustic view into the past

Since 1960, we’ve known that the sun is oscillating. Helioseismology is the study of oscillation waves through the sun; it allows astrophysicists to develop extremely detailed profiles of the interior conditions of the sun. The inspiration for the artistic work is the imagination that the sun is a huge resonating body for sound waves traveling to the interior of the sun and being reflected, as well as the awareness that we could look into the past by observing the processes on and in the sun – a paradox working with the medium sound, which can be experienced only in the present.

Into the sun is a live electronic solo piece for a multichannel system.