“Luminous SOUND”

as >>emerging existence<< in space and time

"Sounding LIGHT"

as >>existing emergence<< of time in space

Studio <SA/JO>

Sabine Schäfer

At the center of the micro-sound-LED-light-art of <SA/JO> is the perception of “resounding-shining” nature, the unknown world that is hidden within animal voices’ and light’s sound, color, and space microcosms.
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Sabine Schäfer

The square of topics by <SA/JO>

ART – NATURE – SCIENCE – TECHNOLOGY

SolarSonic Insects

MicroSonical Shining Biospheres

Co-operations with scientists an scientific institutions

Publications (selection)

ESSAY

Deleuze and the Sampler as an Audio-Microscope
On the music-historical-esthetical and philosophical foundations of the digital, micro-acoustic recording, analysing and production process "EndoSonoScopy”
2010, LIBRI Publishing U.K.

ISBN 9781 9047 50277

Published article

CATALOG
TopoSonic Arts
Aesthetics and selected works of the artist couple 1997-2006
Including a documentation of the spatial sound art projects by the
solo artists Schäfer and Krebs 1994-1999
2007, Ed. Kehrer Heidelberg (Engl./Ger., CD Supplement)

SOUND
TopoSonic Spheres
22 Space-soundMilieus with
Sound-microscopied voices of insects and nature sounds
CD / DVD WERGO Schott Mainz

ARCHIVES

with Works by the artist couple <SA/JO> and the solo artists

Since July 2011: mediaartbase.de – Data collection for international media art www.mediaartbase.de

Since December 2011: sonospheres.org an archive for radio plays of sonic art with productions of the radio station “DeutschlandRadio Kultur”

Since 2008 “Weserburg” Museum for Modern Art Bremen:
„Radio As Art“ – Archive for radio art

Since 2007: audio and video collection of the Media Library | Center for Art and Media (ZKM) www.zkm.de

Archives of the „Deutscher Musikrat“, CD series:
„Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000“ und „Edition Zeitgenössische Musik“ Compositions by the solo artists Joachim Krebs and Sabine Schäfer

Current Exhibitions

Science Center „phaeno“ Wolfsburg
TopoSonic Tunnel
Accessible Space-soundBody within the architecture by Zaha Hadid Permanent exhibition, Tue – Sun: 10h –18h, www.phaeno.de

Center for Art and Media (ZKM) / VIP Lounge

Sonic Lines n´Rooms No.7

SpaceSound-Installation

Collection of the Center for Art and Media ZKM Karlsruhe

Permanent Exhibition

Bern University of the Arts
Hörbild
Space-sound object
Permanent exhibition at the department Music and Media Art, www.medien-kunst.ch
By appointment only: Contact

Studio <SA/JO>

The studio <SA/JO> was founded in 1998 by the couple of artists <sabine schäfer // joachim krebs> (since 2009 named <SA/JO>). Since 2014, beyond the veil of Joachim Krebs, the Studio <SA/JO> is continued by Sabine Schäfer.

Joachim Krebs:

Sabine Schäfer:

<SA/JO> Sabine Schäfer / Joachim Krebs
Foto: © Felix Groß

TopoSonic Arts
– To Render the Inaudible Audible

I.
The Acoustic Microcosm of
Animal Voices and Natural Sounds

Since 1998, our Space-sound art has focused – and does so almost exclusively today – on the so far practically unknown „Space-sound world of micro-acoustic dimensions“ of animal voices and natural sounds, a world at the first glance concealed „inside“ nature’s sounds and noises.

In order to render the „intrinsic“ acoustic micro-dimensions of both animal voice and natural sound we developed a universally unique further specifically scientific/acoustic procedure by the end of the 1990, the so-called „TopoSonic-Audio-Slow-motion“ and „Inner Space-sound Microscopy“ (Endo-Sono-Microscopy) using a computer-based instrumental equipment.

Using these universal-elementary and quasi „trans-cultural“ Space-sound materials, we have now, among others, been able to realize Space-sound art works which continuously oscillate between „natural“ (nature) and „artificial“ (arts) sounds and which directly address human on a holistic level, as far as possible beyond national language and intellectual barriers – the listener does not need any specific preliminary cultural knowledge – to offer him/her, in the first place, an extraordinary „listening experience“.