To hear on Sunday 28 August and 4 September 2016, 2pm - 9pm:

This Is For You (ohrenhoch, Berlin)
(2015)

by Tina M Pearson

With 'This Is For You (ohrenhoch, Berlin)' by Tina M Pearson ohrenhoch tries for the first time to repeat a presentation. It's a mini work in progress for ohrenhoch, Tina M Pearson and the visitors.

'This Is For You (ohrenhoch, Berlin)' was created by Tina M Pearson for the Sound Gallery ohrenhoch in August 2015, and was presented here. Those who missed 'This Is For You' now have the opportunity to hear the sound installation. For those who already heard it, 'This Is For You' can be an interesting repeating new discovery: it can mean for each individual that the present and the past, or the hearing and the heard in their complexity get related with the future.

In this context I quote Tina M Pearson for 'This Is For You': "...The perception of these audio sounds will vary depending on other sounds you hear, sounds you imagine and remember, sounds you make and how you are positioned and move through the galleries."

I am convinced that we need to percieve sounds more consciously to become more rebellious. Hearing is part of this movement because with its fineness and complexity it is a crucial factor for a new kind of enlightenment. In this spirit:

This is for you

Knut Remond

Tina M Pearson on 'This Is For You (ohrenhoch, Berlin)':

This Is for You is a location-specific installation that reimagines the ohrenhoch gallery space as a multi-dimensional score for personal listening within a sonically activated environment.

A set of texts is presented along the walls of each of the three exhibition spaces, inviting visitors to consider many different ways to perceive and listen.

This Is For You engages with the subjective territory that conjoins passive and active listening with sonic imagination, enhanced by audio signals and subtle sounds that weave in and out of the threshold of audibility. These sounds are perceived uniquely by each listener, depending on the individual’s location, height, movement, auditory ability and state of mind. This effect leaves a rich “plus one” space for the listener’s own inner realization of the score.

This Is For You dismantles the idea of a homogenous listening or performance presentation for a passive audience, placing the installation experience within the control of the listener’s intentions and perceptions, into the stark realm of alone-ness – in birth, death, sensation, – as experienced individually, solo, from a singular perspective.

Here, perhaps each listener’s unique intimate inner sounds, sonic memories and imagination can form the basis for a wildly individual and deep sonic relationship with reality; including the present and past resonance of the ohrenhoch building location; with the rock, tree roots and earth it is built on; with the flora, fauna, waters, lands and sky of its biosphere.

This Is for You is informed by Tina Pearson’s preoccupation with listening and perception, including her work with attention states, breath cycles and verbal, graphic, and text scores in music composition; her 2012-2013 project A Year of 4’33” (weekly outdoor performances of John Cage’s iconic work), and by the Sonic Meditations of the American composer Pauline Oliveros.

Audio Field Reports nos. 1-51 / Soundactivism 1-30: 
Interviews since January 2014 with the artists, concept, questions, design by Knut Remond.
Limited editions audio cassettes, each 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' (and heard on headphone in the ohrenhoch archive).

Audio Field Report no. 34 / Sound activism 13: Interview with Tina M Pearson by Knut Remond. Limited Edition Audio cassette, 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop' (and can be heard there on headphone in the archive space).