Buried Landscapes, by Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies

Buried Landscapes

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1.	Kohlboden Spring Catchment 07:36	info	buy track
2.	Water Works Lengg 15:04	info	buy track
3.	Reservoir Lyren 17:43	info	buy track

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"Buried Landscapes" gathers a careful recording and depiction of the hidden network of galleries, pipes, turbines and reservoirs that supply Zurich with all of its water. It presents a surprising juxtaposition of archetypal constructions starting with the archaic water galleries at Kohlbodenquelle carved directly into the moraine substrate, through a high-tech underground lake pumping station at Tiefenbrunnen and ending with a Modernist concrete water reservoir at Lyren buried in the foothills of the Uetliberg. Each place reveals water in its most abstract, least visible, but nonetheless essential form. The album is a testament to the effective burial of water in our landscapes. It closes our audiovisual water trilogy "Bodies of Water" with an ominous question about the scarcity of water foretold. What form this ever may take will definitely be the next upcoming chapter in the shaping of our landscapes.
- Christophe Girot

The album combines field recordings (from geophones, hydrophones, electromagnetic sensors, contact, stereo and ambisonic microphones), analog photographies and point cloud visualizations.

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released October 4, 2022

Concept: Ludwig Berger, Fabian Gutscher, Dennis Häusler, Johannes Rebsamen, Matthias Vollmer

Recording assistance, sound editing and mixing: Ludwig Berger, Fabian Gutscher

Photographic assistance, Image editing: Dennis Häusler, Johannes Rebsamen, Matthias Vollmer

Point Cloud Visualisations: Dennis Häusler, Johannes Rebsamen, Matthias Vollmer

Participating Students (recordings and photographs): Eric Baumann, Pawel Bejm, Lara Biesser, Jasper Blind, Nico Bohren, Lancelot Burwell, Toja Coray, Jan Dabrowski, Marvin Ebneter, Lida Freudenreich, Sandro Fritschi, Fabienne Girsberger, Przemysaw Jan Godlewski, Luna Grünenfelder, Dario Gysin, Lukas Haas, August Halvorsen, Andrej Harnist, Shen He, Laura Hegner, Lewis Horkulak, Yaxin Hou, Zi-Jian Timmy Huang, Elias Mika, Nikola Nikolic, Nikola Nikolov, Xiang Li, Elyas Lunardi, Patrick Oliveira, Guillem Pérez Gregori, Tania Perret, Alicja Prusinska, Nina Rohrer, Jonas Schüpbach, Matthieu Schwarz, Aaron Senn, Lucas Tanner, Dominic Tálos, Georgina Termens Gumá, Hongyi Wang, Josin Zanker, Yiran Zhang

Graphic: Jacques Borel
Vinyl Mastering: Giuseppe Ielasi
Cover Image: Dominic Tálos

Teaching Team: Christophe Girot, Ludwig Berger, Fabian Gutscher, Dennis Häusler, Johannes Rebsamen, Matthias Vollmer

Special Thanks: Martina Hügli, Emanuel Pulfer, Gereon Siévi, Dominic Tálos,
ALPA of Switzerland, Stadt Zürich Wasserversorgung, Thomas Horat,
Urs Leimgruber, Joachim Lenzner, André Lusti

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Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies Zürich, Switzerland

Chair of Christophe Girot, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich.

We understand sound as a primary element of the spatial structure and aesthetic quality of a landscape. Combining experimental fieldwork with a 3D-sound laboratory setting, we analyze, remodel and recompose sonic spaces.

Team: Ludwig Berger, Fabian Gutscher, Dennis Häusler, Johannes Rebsamen, Matthias Vollmer ... more

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