/∫/ Shh, 2019

The typical sound “Shh” can be translated in the phonetic range with the character ∫. This sound has mainly the only function to ask for silence, used before a concert begins, in a conversation between two people, with a mother to bring the child to sleep or as a threat. The installation works with the room and not against it. Through the played “Shh” sounds ephemeral spaces in the room are evoked and unfolded. The original sound source multiplies spatially, creates non-exi- stent spaces through the echo of the room and ultimately dissolves in the atmosphere of the concrete space. An evocation, however, which is made possible only by the effect of space and thus develops a dependence to the place.