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.

Website of Peter Strickmann