Gunnar Wendel

"The microphone as a finger pointing toward an object so as to make it heard. The same object captured by the same mic, but by someone else, becoming other, because it’s someone else’s fingerprint." — Brunhild Ferrari This quote is the central theme of Šepot země | Das Geflüster der Erde (The Whisper of the Earth). It emphasises a simple but profound idea: sound is not simply recorded, but fundamentally altered by the act of recording, technology and the unique perspective of the person placing the microphones. Each recording bears their unique ‘fingerprint’. During their one-week stay at Lubná, Philipp Waltinger and Marcus Kestner explored and recorded soundscapes directly on site and collected their own material. At the same time, they conducted live streams with collaborating artists: Lorenz Lindner, Nele Möller, Justin Bennett, Lia Mazzari, Gunnar Wendel and Lowtec. Each individual performer presented their own acoustic perspective on different sound environments and objects. All of these acoustic perspectives were recorded during the week-long residency and broadcasted on Radio Earth. This is an excerpt from Gunnar Wendel's recording.