KLANGRAUM

Piano strings emerge from the opened grand piano like visible paths of sound. What normally remains hidden inside the soundboard steps out into space: vibration, tension, movement. For this installation at Heidelberg University, Stefanie Welk let strings float in the air; they overlap, bundle and open up again – like sine waves, like a drawing made of sound in the air. The piano remains origin and store, but the sound becomes a spatial line, an energetic trace.

Created in 2007, the installation makes invisible forces visible. Between materiality and immateriality, a field of fragile order, movement and light emerges.