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The artist group Augenstern (Christiane Prehn and Wolfgang Meyer) have lived and worked on the ship Anuschka for many years.In July 2014 the MS Anuschka left Berlin in the direction of Paris before reaching their final destination in the south of France in November 2014. On the way, the crew examined numerous bridges, spanning rivers and canals. Using tentacles installed on board to scratch the bridges, the ship turned into a sensitive, perceiving and sounding laboratory interacting with the territory.

Each of the bridges passed has its personal soundprofile, created by its shape, its practical use and its way of construction.During the journey KG Augenstern presented audiovisual performances that could be observed and heard along the banks. Exhibitions of “Tentacles”- installations where shown in contem-porary art spaces at Arles and Valence.A complete documentation of the sound recordings can be heard on the SoundWays application.

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liegeplatz rummelsburg

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Berlin | Crossing busy Berlin on a windy day, we navigated the Spree and Havel. There are 30 bridges from the east to the western city boundaries and their height just permits our boat to pass. Unfortunately one of the bridges turned out to be too low because of

the high water level. So, instead of scratching it with the ten-tacles, we scratched it with our top-tent, which lead to a long cut that had to be repaired later that day (You can hear that). In the very beginning, you hear the sounds of our mooring place in Berlin-Rummelsburg.

Track 1Km 0 – 25 (8:31)

6 7Berlin | Spree, MarschallbrückeBerlin | Spree, Oberbaumbrücke

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Mittellandkanal

From Berlin to Nijmegen (Nl) | On the way between Berlin and River Rhine, we traveled on the Havel River and most of the time on the Mittellandkanal, which is quite boring and has a lot of commercial traffic. We passed Hannover and Münster with its 7 bridges at the Dortmund-

Ems Kanal, and then took the River Rhine in the directionnorth with its very high bridges, which our tentacles couldn’t reach.

Track 2Km 25 – 700 (9:41)

River Havel, Brücke Kirchmöser8

around Münster River Rhine 1110 Mittellandkanal around Hannover Dortmund-Ems Kanal

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Through the Netherlands and Belgium to Paris | We turned south, up the river Maas through Maastricht, Namur and on the river Sambre to Charleroi in Belgium. Our initial plan was, to travel further on the Sambre didn’t work because some locks where closed for reconstruction.

So we continued on numerous canals reaching France on the river Schelde. From there we took the Canal du Nord (where we had another scratch-cut in the top tent because one bridge was lower than indicated) and the river Oise arriving on the Seine only a short distance left to Paris.

Track 3Km 700 – 1500 (5:59)

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Canal du Nord (F)

Canal du Centre (B)

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Tentacles Performance | Bande original, Paris, aug. 2014Friday morning we scratched the bridges with KG Augenstern.Thanks to 6 hours daily navigation, they finally made it just in time for BO, having left Berlin the first of July on board of their ship Anuschka. Some accidents and channel closures later, KG Augenstern consisting of Christiane Prehn and Wolfgang Meyer, have moored their battered boat (the roof was torn passing a bridge, the second motor developed problems …) at the confluence of the two channels, the Ourcq channel, well known by the BO fans, and the Saint-Denis channel.On a weekday with rainy weather, the navigation on a private ship has a completely different sound quality as the weekend boats in the ambiance of the summer tourist season. Here, Anuschka has sometimes to give way to those impressive ships of Lafarge Cement Factory or has to ask for the permission

to turn. And also, on a rainy August morning, the canal de l’Ourcq is completely different: very rare joggers and dog walkers and an ambiance allotted to work: and there they are at work, Christiane and Wolfgang.How many bridges they have scratched already? They don’t know that exactly but some hundreds. And the end of the game? To establish a sound cartography of the bridges from Berlin to Paris and further more from Paris to Arles where the German artists are expected to arrive at “one time or another” to prepare an installation at Galerie Huit in the framework of Arles Contemporain in April 2015.And if one asks them if they are able to recognise the sound quality of a bridge before they pass it, they answer with a smile that “it’s not the structure of concrete or metal of a bridge” that signs for its characteristic sound, but that it is much more “a question of rhythm”. Annick Rivoire, Blog au fil de la BO

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Pont Mirabeau

Pont royal

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Paris (Canal de l’Ourcq and seine) | From La Vilette in central Paris, we took the quite industrial Canal de L’Ourcq (where we performed for Bande Originale, an art event) direction north on a rainy day with eleven very nice bridges with a good height for our tentacles. Back on River Seine,

unfortunately it was a very windy journey and the 19 bridges from the western city borders to Pont Neuf where hard to record. In addition to that, our professional microphone collapsed leaving us with just a mobile phone for the recordings …

Track 4Km 1500 – 1530 (12:40)

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Paris | Seine, Pont Neuf18 19Paris | Canal de l‘Ourcq Paris | Seine, Pont Mirabeau Paris | Seine, Pont Royal

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Tentacles live-stream | at soundgallery “ohrenhoch-the noise shop”, Berlin, sept. 2014 During navigation on River Marne, two entire sundays of the journey including the bridge scratchings were screened via audiovisual livestream from the ship Anuschka in the gallery space of ohrenhoch and to the web-site Ohrenhoch TV.

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From Paris to lyon | We travelled the Marne River and its canal upstream where we had quite rainy weather. To be able to undergo the very low bridges of the Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne we had to put down the top tent and steer under open sky for some days. The canal is very

narrow and in some parts very muddy which only allows low speed and makes steering quite hard. Additionally there are up to twenty locks to pass every day … so we where quite happy to be back on the rivers on the Saône which brought us to Lyon.

Track 5Km 1530 – 2020 (4:52)

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22 23Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne Canal entre Champagne et BourgogneRiver Marne, Railway Bridge

24 25Saône Mâcon | Saône, Pont Saint Laurent

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rhône

Pont Masaryk

Pont Georges Clémenceau

Pont du Maréchal Koenig

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saint vincentPont de la Feuillée

Pont du Maréchal Juin

Paserelle du Palais de Justice

Pont Bonaparte

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lyon | We passed the ten bridges of central Lyon having quite nice weather.

Track 6Km 2020 – 2040 (1:41)

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lyon | Saône, Passerelle du Palais de Justicelyon | Saône, Pont St. Vincent

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From lyon to the Mediterranean coast near Montpellier | The big Rhône River took us south very fast with the help of the current. Bridges are high there because the water level alternates some meters depending on the weather. Near Arles we entered the little Rhône and the Canal entre

Rhone et Sète. At the very end you can hear the sound of our winter mooring place at 6 am with different birds including flamingos.

Track 7Km 2014 – 2450 (5:17)

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30 31vienne | River Rhône donzère | River Rhône

32 33River Rhône, Pont d‘Avignon Little Rhônearles | River Rhône

3534 Carnon | Canal du Rhône à Sète Canal du Rhône à Sète, winter mooring

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scratching a tunnel | The sound of a tunnel on the Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne

Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne, Balesme tunnel36

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Tentacles synthesis | Installation, mixed media, Arles, April 2015, Galerie Huit, Arles ContemporainAll the tentacles that where used are installed on a bottle dryer.

All the sounds of the bridges are played together as a cluster. Stimulated by speakers, the noise of the cluster makes the tentacles tremble.

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Tentacles 2 | Installation, mixed media, Valence, June 2015 Seven buoys discovered on the beach of the Mediterranean are suspended on rotating electric motors. At each of the buoys a tentacle is attached, which comes repeatedly to the limits of its field of action and then, scratches at walls at the floor or the ceiling. The produced sounds and rhythms

vary according to the room. The installation turns with the slow precision of a clockwork. Through a flexible suspension with roaps, the movements and sounds are still in permanent, randomly change. Materials, structure, shape and acoustics of the room are auditively and visually transformed in a permanent process.

Tracks:1. Berlin | (8:31)2. from Berlin to Njimegen | (9:41)3. Through the Netherlands and Belgium to Paris | (5:59)4. Paris | (12:40)5. from Paris to Lyon | (4:52)6. Lyon | (1:41)7. from Lyon to the Mediterranean | (5:17)8. scratching a tunnel | (4:51)9. Installation “Tentacles synthesis” | (1:50)10. Installation “Tentacles 2” | (2:26)

all pictures except p 21, p 38, p 39 by Kg Augensternp 21 Ohrenhoch Berlin, Foto: Katharina Mossp 38 –39: Galerie Huit, Arles, Fotos: Edwin Fauthoux-KresserMastering: Tomislav BucalicDesign: Sebastian Ristow | www.flatlab.biz© KG Augenstern 2016 2014

Tentacles in soundWaysThe application SoundWays changes life into a cinematic experience, providing a portable facility with the latest technologies of electro acoustic music and sound recording.SoundWays is an audio platform dedicated to the creating, editing and sharing of geolocalized sound walks. Soundways offers to the user the possibility of unedited along the way environment related listening, of orientation and geolocalisation: a psychoacoustic in-vivo experience of theenvironment and the territory.SoundWays allows the professional and the non-professio-nal user to create and share soundtracks of the daily life. While depositing murmurs, bubbles of geolocalized sounds, and while reading those bubbles creating audio walks, the user of SoundWays gives sound to the space he explores.“Tentacles“ has its proper channel in SoundWays.

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Field recording series by GruenrekorderGermany | 2016 | Gruen 170 |

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Field recording series by GruenrekorderGermany | 2016 | Gruen 170 | lC 09488 eaN: 4050486961865

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