Grit Ruhland
The project Alles im Fluss is exploring the river as a symbol of human imagination through sound installations and electroacoustic compositions.
Three compositions interpret the river's timeless nature through varied musical forms, inspired by the idea that the river transcends time and space. You can flow between the resonating soundscapes each day of Hear Me! festival, from 10 am to 3 pm on the first floor of the Veřejný Sál Hraničář .
Alles im Fluss was prepared by the Leipzig collective Gerauchkulisse.
La Pesch
La Pesch's Vltava takes the listener on an acoustic trip from Vltava’s sources to its mouth. Accompanied by her dog as an other-than-human being and inspired by Bedřich Smetana’s symphonic poem, she confronts the Romantic idyll of the original piece with a changing reality.
Leon Goltermann
Leon Goltermann's composition called Stream explores abstract characteristics of the river and creates
sound images that reflect mass, flow and division without classical instruments or real river recordings.
Rivers appear in Goltermann's piece as both relaxing and threatening phenomena, and are reviewed in terms of their social significance. The fixed media composition uses the ambisonic surround system creating a truly immersive experience.
Grit Ruhland & Konrad Behr
Composition by Grit Ruhland & Konrad Behr titled Nuclear gate: Mimoň (Ploučnice), portrays the military region of Ralsko. It traces the stream's journey from the uranium mining area, which is currently being under remediation, to the former military training area.
A mixture of hydrophone and field recordings creates a sound collage that makes the tension between idyll and dystopia audible.