Detritus at Onassis Stegi | Sandra Boss

The performance “Acoustic Appraiser” is named after an antique portable German audiometer or hearing test machine. Audiometers are normally used to determine hearing acuity according to a set of carefully selected tones and noises. The machine consists of sine tones corresponding to the different frequency bands of the human ear. Furthermore, the machine comes with masking tones and a German speech test tape. In the performance, the borders between scientific and musical sounds are explored through the machine’s various sound features