Crossing Distance – Wandering Voice was composed specifically for the Schöneberger Südgelände Nature Park in Berlin as a sonic impression of the site’s acoustic landscape. The composition draws on traditional Eastern European chants interwoven with elements of experimental voice work.
The project was inspired by experiences of physical distance during the pandemic, as well as by the park itself – a place that became, for many, a space of reflection and quiet gathering. Situated between remnants of industrial and technological history on one side, and a deeply cultivated nature on the other, Südgelände acts as a heterotopia: a meeting point of spaces, energies and temporalities.
The performance unfolds within the existing soundscape of the park, exploring how voice and environment interact. It reflects on different ways of perceiving and inhabiting technology, tradition and nature through the lens of distance. The work listens to the acoustic quality of the place – between space, body and movement, closeness and separation – and asks:
How can we still be with one another, through and within the spaces that separate us?
Direction, Choreography: Jan-Tage Kühling
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