SOLILOQUY

In 2023, OTO SOUND MUSEUM intends to pursue its migratory mission by travelling both in the digital sphere www.oto.museum and in the urban space, nurturing the nomadic nature of the museum as a home for sound art. Through the SOUND TURM program 2023 at the old Wasserturm in Zurich – which prolongs last year's experience – sound once again lights up the water tower, endowing it with a ‘heartbeat’ that contributes to make it a living organism. 

For the first performance of the year, curatorial collective Zaira Oram invites artist and musician Yanik Soland to perform live inside the space. SOLILOQUY is inspired by meditation practices and local siren tests. Inside the Wasserturm, the artist plays an accoustic narrative using his selfbuild instrument ASMR KOTO, a transformed table-zengarden from his japanese grandmother, distorted voice and a modular synthesizer. Through the windows of the tower he intends to amplify and enlarge his small gestures on the instruments using speakers facing the environment nearby, developing a new relationship between the imperceptible and the perceived.

Meeting point : Badweg 10 Zurich