A sea of sound from 200 tea kettles
BITTERSWEET TEA SYMPHONY
A sound installation with 200 kettles boiling, vibrating, steaming.
People come and go whenever they like.
By Rio Wolta / Piet Baumgartner
At 90 degrees Celcius it gets loud: 200 tea kettles vibrate, the basses rumble, the Wasserkirche Zurich fills with steam until the kettles finally switch off, it clicks 200 times through the room and the sound sea slowly flattens out again. The tea kettles are electrically switched, the choreographies differ in water quantities, delayed cooking times, temperature stages and steam. Thus a new symphony is created every twenty minutes. During the breaks, the steam clouds disperse and the game begins anew.
DATE 6th-10th October 2020, 18-21h
LOCATION Wasserkirche, Limmatquai 101, Zürich
COLLABORATION Wasserkirche Zürich, Theater Neumarkt, Helmhaus Zürich
SUPPORT Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Migros Kulturprozent, Cassinelli-Vogel-Stiftung
A tour follows. Afterwards the tea makers will be given to social institutions.