Bill Fontana „Acoustic Time Travel“ 2013 – Installation view, excerpt.

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Bill Fontana
„Acoustic Time Travel“, 2013
Video (color, 8-channel sound)
28 min 59 sec, loop
Edition of 1, 1 AP

„Acoustic Time Travel“ is a sound sculpture created when Fontana was an artist in residence at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland. The work was created using the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Its musical vocabulary comes from a sonic databank generated by high energy particle beams passing through hundreds of parallel copper plates on a light speed journey. While the CERN collider attempts to recreate the origin of life, Fontana accompanies its induction currents and electronic beeps with a slow, dreamy video of soft focus cars entering San Francisco from the Golden Gate Bridge. This quixotic coupling urges questions of timelessness and the enduring procession of sound.