By creating a water-pipe organ which you can play by immersing hanging organ pipes in water, Anouk Kellner explores how musical instruments not only produce sounds, but can serve as vessels for telling stories and creating abstract, narrative structures. How composition, movement, physical interaction and mechanics can work together to build instrument that touches the poetics of sound and performance. By pulling a rope-system like a puppeteer, the pitches shift, producing uncanny, almost human like sound textures. The act of moving the ropes creates a ritualistic approach, a repetitive movement which puts the body in a narrative of struggle and exhaustion.

Anouk Kellner (2001) is a sound artist and composer based in Belgium. In her work she creates sonic landscapes in which, without imposing anything, she wants to take the listener along by letting them experience everything in their own way. By abstracting time and using repetition, she explores the ritualistic, textural and narrative qualities of sound. Her latest work mainly focuses on the organ, producing both compositions for the church organ and her own experimental interpretations, such as the Airchoir series. She combines this with other media such as documentary, textiles, electronics, dance and movement.