Piteå Open Form Pavilion of Air

Piteå Öppen Form Paviljong av Luft
Audiowork / soundwalk accessible via Echoes app
Duration variable.
Specific installation area: 80m long x 43m wide
Located within the Solvåg (Solar Wave) structure,
Piteå Science Park / exterior of Studio Acusticum, Sweden, 2023
Developed via self-initiated residency at Studio Acusticum, 2021 & 2023
Presented in conjunction with Piteå Science Park, Studio Acusticum, RISE & PiteEnergi
Launch: 1st June 2023

Part of the pan-European Open Form Pavilion of Air series
(15 sites across 9 countries by end of 2023)

The Pavilion is easy to access, just:
1. Download the Echoes app
2. Grab a mobile phone & headphones
3. Download the audiowork in the app (not a browser) using the link or QR code & open while at the location outside Studio Acusticum

An overview of the Open Form Pavilion of Air series via RTÉ Culture (Irish SVT equivalent):
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2023/0327/1366079-new-music-dublin-welcomes-you-to-the-open-form-pavilion-of-air/
 

The Piteå Öppen Form Paviljong av Luft (Piteå Open Form Pavilion of Air) is a floating roof of sound across the Solvåg site in Piteå, triggered by GPS and accessed via a smartphone, headphones and the echoes.xyz app. Inspired by Polish architects Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s “Open Form” architectural concept (ca. 1959), this audiowork is one of 15 locations in 9 countries in the pan-European Open Form Pavilion of Air series, using sound and site-mapping to offer a playful renewal and reframing of public space as an essential place of engagement for the community.

By walking through different zones within the Solvåg, while using your mobile phone, the Echoes app and headphones, you become a participatory listener producing a composition in real-time. Your navigation creates a unique choreography via GPS, combining and changing sounds mapped through the Solvåg through the app. Hear this sub-Arctic location and its context become transformed by the sounds forming this floating acoustic architecture, revealing an immersive, profoundly spatial and physical experience. The Pavilion has no visible presence outside the app and can only be accessed and enjoyed at the Solvåg site in Piteå.

Also in the Open Form Pavilion of Air series:

Access PITEÅ PAVILION OF AIR audiowork in Echoes app
Lublin Pavilion of Air
Prague AGENESIS Pavilion
Folldal Pavilion of Air
Bergen Pavilion of Air
Bornholm Pavilion of Air
Dublin Pavilion of Air
London Pavilion of Air
Inis Oírr Pavilion of Air
Berlevåg Pavilion of Air
Sound Art Lab Pavilion of Air
Cobh Pavilion of Air
Lofoten Pavilion of Air
Berlin Pavilion of Air
Venice Pavilion of Air