Astrid Seme: Wien Mitte

Cd (5' 29''), in cardboard box with booklet incl. 8 monoprints
Edition: 25, design: Astrid Seme, 2013
Speaker: Bruno Pisek
Writers: Christian Scheib
Link: Audio

€35

Astrid Seme’s piece Wien Mitte lets the gaps in language resonate.
[read more] She finds this sphere in the blank between the two words “Wien Mitte” [Vienna Center] spoken by a male voice. Slowly Seme zooms literally into the center of the words, between “n” and “M”, to the short break the speaker makes. What sounds at first like a linguistic analysis becomes abstract, technical until it turns into a musical tune, which sounds like a cello playing in the center of Vienna Center.
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