Camille Dings, Craigie Horsfield, Reinier Rietveld, Mark Ritsema en Rutger Wolfson
The sound installation Soundwork 4.0 was made specifically for De Vleeshal. An adaptation of Soundwork 4.0 was presented later in 2002 at Documenta XI in Kassel.
Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
The sound for Soundwork 4.0 was recorded in a studio, on eight audio channels (stereo is two channels). The editing, however, took place in De Vleeshal, where the sound material interacted with the hall’s distinctive Gothic architecture. Here, each of the eight soundtracks was played over its own loudspeaker, moving independently through the space of De Vleeshal.
Soundwork 4.0 was the fourth in a series of site specific sound installations, the first of which was executed in the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart in 1999. The installations were made by a collective consisting of artist Craigie Horsfield; sound technicians and musicians Camille Dings and Reinier Rietveld; musician and composer Mark Ritsema; and musician and curator Rutger Wolfson.
‘Slow time’ is an important theme in the sound work series. Because Soundwork 4.0 was four hours long, it was almost impossible to experience the work in one visit. In its development of an architecture of sound and its attention to the social condition of space, Soundwork 4.0 was perhaps more of a sound environment than a sound work. It was an environment to return to again and again; a place where time seemed to slow down and things could simply be – without having to justify their existence.
