Peter Bogers
- visual artist working with image and sound, creates spacial audiovisual installations. Born in 1956, Dordrecht,(The Netherlands), graduate Art Academy St. Joost, Breda,sculpture, working as an independent artist since 1982

‘Untamed Choire’ 2013
a multi channel audio-installation

duration: 15 minutes

'Untamed Choir' is a audio installation that consists of 40 small speakers hanging from the ceiling, playing 30 separate audio channels. Twenty of these speakers are positioned into a circle, cones pointing inwards. The rest of them are divided over the exhibition room. The human voice is used as the 'sound basis'. We hear continual, gradual changes ranging between 'scream' and 'song' in various tonal pitches, using samples of existing vocal recordings as well as well as purpose-made voice recordings. Three different vocal parts in three different octaves are alternated and connected to each other by a screaming voice. This screaming voice is performed by the circle of 20 speakers. It moves around into this circle which is located in the middle of the exhibition room.
During the vocal parts the 'soundscape' gradually changes as one moves through the room. With every move the listener makes, a slight and subtle change in the audio spectrum will present itself.
On one of the walls a running time-code is projected. During the multi-channel chant , the background is black and the figures are white. During shouting this image will transform into a negative picture, resulting in black figures on a white background. This white background lightens up in the exhibition room. ‘Untamed Choir’ is a concert with a beginning and a end. The visitor can self-start it by pushing a small button located in the corner of the projection screen.