samāʿ
Twenty threaded rods of varying lengths hang loosely from the gallery's crossbeams, each a few centimetres above the floor. A specially developed release mechanism at the upper ends of the rods triggers a fixed washer at random intervals, which spins down the rods and falls to the floor in free fall. This creates a varying field of metallic sounds and percussive impacts.
samāʿ is the phonetic spelling of the Arabic word for “to hear”. It is also used for the Sufi ritual of circle dancing, in which the dervish spins around his own axis for the duration of the ritual.
Technical implementation: Peter Schröder
Presented at my Diploma show Enkýklios, at Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, 2018
samāʿ
presented at the Noise and Sound Art Festival NoiseLab,
Field station on Teufelsberg in Berlin, 25–26 May 2019
Technical realisation with Peter Schröder
Sound installation (samāʿ) by Andreas Schröder; Letters on the wall (SAME.SAME!US...!!) by Daniel Nehring
presented at the group show Entropic Elegy,
Galerie Mariton, Centre des Sciences et des Arts, St. Ouen, Paris.
October 2019
Sound installation (samāʿ) by Andreas Schröder;
Letters on wall (SAME.SAME!US...!!), banner with graphics (Fizzle my dazzle) and video (Hover walk) by Daniel Nehring
First manual version of the sound installation (2016)
14 threaded rods hanging from the ceiling above the floor. Each rod is fitted with washers that are manually triggered at intervals, causing the washers to rotate downward and eventually fall to the floor.