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Struer Open Form Pavilion of Air / Struer Åben Form Pavillon af Luft

Struer Åben Form Pavillon af Luft (Struer Open Form Pavilion of Air) design
Sydkajen 1, Struer, Denmark
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An overview of the Open Form Pavilion of Air series via RTÉ Culture (Irish DR/BBC equivalent):
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2023/0327/1366079-new-music-dublin-welcomes-you-to-the-open-form-pavilion-of-air/

“Struer Åben Form Pavillon af Luft” (Struer Open Form Pavilion of Air) is a floating roof of sound extending over the corner of Sydkaj in Struer Harbour, triggered by GPS and accessed via a smartphone, headphones and the echoes.xyz app. Inspired by Polish architects Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s “Open Form” architectural concept (ca. 1959), this audiowork is one of 15 locations in 9 countries in the pan-European Open Form Pavilion of Air series, using sound and site-mapping to offer a playful renewal and reframing of public space as an essential place of engagement for the community.

By walking through different zones along the corner of Sydkaj while using your mobile phone, the Echoes app and headphones, you become a participatory listener producing a composition in real-time. Your navigation creates a unique choreography via GPS, combining and changing sounds mapped along the pier through the app. Hear this harbourside location and its context become transformed by the sounds forming this floating acoustic architecture, revealing an immersive, profoundly spatial and physical experience. The Pavilion has no visible presence outside the app and can only be accessed and enjoyed on-site at Struer Harbour.

Credits

Developed with Sound Art Lab and Struer Tracks festival (DK)
Hosted by: Struer Tracks Festival

APA style reference

Curgenven, R. (2023). Struer Open Form Pavilion of Air / Struer Åben Form Pavillon af Luft. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/struer-open-form-pavilion-of-air-struer-aben-form-pavillon-af-luft/

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slare

To saunter, to be slovenly (The Dialect of Cumberland – Robert Ferguson, 1873). Rarely used in Cumbria now but has a meaning of to walk slowly, to amble, to walk with no particular purpose. Used for example in the ballad Billy Watson’s Lonnin written by Alexander Craig Gibson of Harrington, Cumbria in 1872 “Yan likes to trail ow’r t’ Sealand-fields an’ watch for t’ commin’ tide, Or slare whoar t’Green hes t’ Ropery an’ t’ Shore of ayder side “(Translation: One likes to trail over to Sealand Fields and watch for the coming tide, Or slare over to where the Green has the ropery and the Shore on the other side) Billy Watson’s Lonning (lonning – dialect for lane) still exists and can be found at Harrington, Cumbria.

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