FERNWIR
KUNG
A SOUNDWALK AT THE KÜHLHAUS
THE IDEA
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Fernwirkung is a soundwalk across the grounds of the Kühlhaus Görlitz. Visitors walk with headphones through zones whose sounds overlap depending on where they stand. Every step changes the mix, so each walk becomes its own version.
The soundwalk is planned to run for about half a year, starting with the opening of FSO Germany in May 2027.
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TWELVE ZONES
THE GROUNDS AS
A DATA CENTRE
COOLING · CORE · SANDBOX · SKY · GROUND
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The grounds become a data centre for AI, spread part by part across the site: the Kühlhaus is the cooling, the machine hall the computing core, the beach volleyball court the sandbox. Above and below lie two zones no data centre has: the sky the data comes from, and the ground, made audible live.
The zones carry the names of Konrad Zuse’s computers, from the Z1 of 1938 onwards, here counting on to Z12. AI becomes audible as something physical: power, heat, cooling, and distributed nodes.
AFTER EINSTEIN
SPOOKY ACTION
AT A DISTANCE
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Einstein called quantum entanglement “spukhafte Fernwirkung”: spooky action at a distance. In 2012, Anton Zeilinger’s group teleported quantum states over 143 km between La Palma and Tenerife, two places acting as one. The title also fits AI, which now runs on machines in many places at once.
Fernwirkung continues THE SUN HAS BEEN EATEN!, the soundwalk Rashomon staged for the solar eclipse on 12 August 2026, from a flooded granite quarry up to the Bieleboh, with the DZA making the underground audible.
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An open call is in preparation, for sound artists from Germany, Poland and Czechia, from Sorbian Lusatia and from anywhere else. The guiding question: What does space sound like? The pieces are made by hand, as loops built for overlapping. A first draft of the rules is below.
Want to take part or send a sound? Write to info@rashomotion.com. Want to support the soundwalk? Become a supporting member of Rashomon e.V.