The sound installation Sound Mirror for Debris No. 2 by visual artist Sara Salamon, curator of the program section dedicated to installations, will be featured in the upstairs gallery as part of the MBZ team presentation.
Sound Mirror for Debris is a series of sound installations, the first of which was shown in Rijeka in 2021, which address the problems of a city in the whirlwind of history. A new sound composition mapping the echoes of empty spaces in the city was created for the 2023 Music Biennale Zagreb. The absence of human activity creates new contingencies, i.e., unforeseeable events, and the author discovers their sound manifestations.
The work uses elements of acoustic resonance and echo as a reflection of sound that appears to the listener with a delay. In the gallery, the recordings are distant and focused 2 m away from the sound source, using an elliptical sound mirror. The object is modeled on parabolic mirrors which were used for eavesdropping, before the invention of the radar, by reflecting and focusing sound waves. Hrvoje Spudić is an assistant for the object’s geometry, while Nikola Brlek (Superhands) is a performance assistant.
The installation can be viewed until April 22, 2023, during the working hours of the KIC Upper Floor Gallery.