BOING!! - Sounds, Colors, Shapes
Listening Eyes, Seeing Ears
Music and the visual arts have a lot in common: they deal with colors, forms and shapes, rhythms and rows; they use interesting tools; they can copy things exactly or alter reality; and they play around with the principles of chaos and order.
- Your choice of exhibitions according to your space requirements, timeframe and budget
- Adding more on is possible; there are many possible ideas
- Space requirements: 100 to 400 sqm
- 20-60 visitors, 6 years and older, family audience
- Duration: 1 day to multiple months
- Find sound image and more references here >>
The BOING!! exhibition consists of about 10 interactive sound sculptures and a collection of pictures good enough to replace the originals of a museum if you show them in other exhibition spaces:
BOING!! on Tour
The BOING!! exhibition has been travelling across Europe for a few years now and could be visited in
- Bratislava
- Rennes
- Baden-Baden
- Luxemburg (video on the right)
Student Artwork Collection
Fifty prizewinning artworks centered on the theme of "Sound," created by schoolchildren of all ages from all different types of schools for a 2001 competition by Saxony's State Ministry of Culture.
Picture-Sound Table BOING!! + Emo Table BOING!!
The smaller-scale alternatives to the larger Sounding Picturebox.
Sounding Picture Boxes
Play a composition with flashlights of graphical notation.
Dada Lala Table
The mouth forms sounds: Kurt Schwitters singing the Ursonata See, Hear and thinking out phonetic poems.
Emo-Wall
What do love, sadness, anger, joy, impudence and fear sound like?
Exhibition information | Photos | Videos
Big-Small / Loud-Quiet instrument wall
Instruments look like they sound.
Assign sounds to graphics and words
to compose a musical piece with words or graphics.
House of Mirrors
Multiply and warp your own voice and reflection in mirrored rooms.
Composition Machine
Plug in optical patterns with wooden pegs and hear them played back as compositions.
Tunnel of Sound Colors
U plus E is Ü, blaU plus gElb is grÜn: Experience mixtures of colors and sound colors.
Dot Dias
Put together rows and sequences with 76 colorful plates or just throw down chaos - and then sing it as a composition!
Samplophone
Create sound landscapes: This is where the ear sees the city, the ocean or the rainforest.
