Fredrik Wretman: Tap Tim

Sounddesign for the installation Tap Tim by Fredrik Wretman

In early October 2008, the swedish installation artist Fredrik Wretman contacted me, because he wanted to use my Monolake piece Indigo for an installation. I liked the idea, but found it a bit inappropriate to simply play back the same song again and again in a loop for this installation.

Tap Tim radiates a sense of timeless contemplation, one single calm and focused work of art in a huge gallery space. Putting two speakers somewhere in order to play back a stereo recording seemed wrong to me to. I suggested to come to Ostersund a few days before the opening and create a constantly permutating and endless multichannel soundscape based on some of the sounds of the Indigo piece.

I prepared some elements in Berlin, and set up a temporary studio in the gallery for a day to work out the final soundscape. We ended up with a six independent streams of sound that fill the room with a never repeating slowly pulsating sonic perfume.

Fredrik, me and the gallery are very happy with the final result.

Tap Tim is shown at the Fargfabriken Norr, Oestersund, Sweden, from January 11 2008 till March 29 2009.

A 30 minute excerpt from the infinitely long soundtrack is here: taptim_soundtrack.mp3

And an even better sounding mix with a total running time of 60 minutes is available on CD.