24.02 – 3.05.2025
daily 10:00–20:00 · 60 min (∞)
8-channel spatial sound + 7-part image series
TONSPUR_passage, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
PORTAL PHONOCENE is a site-conditioned sound work for the TONSPUR_passage in the MuseumsQuartier. Part of the ongoing series PHONOCENE ~ SPECTRAL AFFECTS, it invites listeners to attune to the vitality of more-than-human voices and sonic expressions. The work unfolds as a series of soundspaces woven from sound materials originating in biodiverse Amazonian territories, reconfigured and expanded through spectral sculpting.
The intervention hovers at the threshold of perception, subtly interweaving with the evolving rhythms, daily interactions, and sounds in and around the passage. It invites discovery — emerging and dissolving within the flow of everyday life. At times barely perceptible, it quietly invites attuned listening. The transfigured clicks, buzzes, croaks, chirps, and whispers of bats, insects, amphibians, and birds drift in a spectral flow, forming a liminal space — a portal into alternative modes of listening and relating.
Commissioned and produced by TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien. Composed during an artist-in-residence at MuseumsQuartier. Curated by Georg Weckwerth.
