Langsam und bedacht wird der Koffer gepackt. Für Peru, für Chavín de Huantar, für das Unwissen. Ohne Pututu, so far. Aber mit allerlei Tutuuuut. Am 7. November geht die Reise los. Hinüber zu einer uralten…
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PETER STRICKMANN: PUTUTUUUUT
Peter Strickmann (born 1983 in Würselen, GER) is a sound artist with all his senses. With performances and installations, he examines every noise, as subtle as it may be. He founded a snoring archive in 2009, communicates via teapots and even enables 600-year-old turtles to talk about their past.
With his project “Pututuuuut”, which he calls “a sound-journalistic expedition”, he tries to dig even further into the past, looking to explore a timeless sound: he travels to the over 3000-year-old Peruvian temple complex in Chavín de Huántar, 500 kilometres north of the capital Lima. Since 2007 a group of sound archaeologists examines the complex and they found out that the architecture has a resonance behaviour designed especially for the pututu. The Peruvian pututu is a snail clam which, similarly played like a trumpet, presumably was used for ritual sound production. Assisted by a microphone and his spontaneous nature, Strickmann now travels to that location to experience what it looks like when present and past come together within a single sound experience, within a single humming of a pututu.
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