"ZENScapes | City Land River".
Sound composition by Götz Naleppa.
On 8.1.2021 at 0.05 a.m. on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Production: Author Production 2019
Length: 45'10
Repetition
Japanese Zen Sumi-e ink painting on rice paper. (picture alliance / Oleksiy Maksymenko)
The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent' (Alfred Brendel).
Ever since Murray Schafer coined the term "soundscape" in 1977, soundscapes have been among the most important compositional forms of sound art.
The audio piece draws three sound environments: City, country and river.
Traditional Chinese and Japanese ink painting serves as inspiration - in which the brushstroke seemingly runs out into nothingness. A play of noise and silence, almost to the point of inaudibility, of frenzied movement, "slow-motion" to apparent standstill.
Götz Naleppa, born in 1943, was editor for sound art at Deutschlandradio Kultur until 2008. He lives and works in Berlin as a director and sound artist. He received the Prix Europa in 1998 for "Sounds of the Month", together with Hanna Hartman. In 2014 he received the GOLD Award from the New York Festival in the category Sound Art for "Cantus Apium" (DKultur 2014) and in 2017 for "Palimpsest - a sound biography" (Deutschlandfunk Kultur 2017).
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