Pailliún Aeir i bhFoirm Oscailte Inis Oírr
Audiowork / Sound walk accessible via Echoes app
Duration variable
Specific installation area: 27m wide x 22m high
Site: east end of beach (An Tra), behind Coast Guard (Costa Garda)
Developed in association with Áras Éanna Arts Centre, May 2023
Launch: May 2023
Part of the pan-European Open Form Pavilion of Air series
Access the work here and open it in the echoes app (not a browser)
The Pavilion is easy to access, just:
1. Download the Echoes app
2. Grab a mobile phone & headphones
3. Download the audiowork in the app (not a browser) using the link or QR code, save it to your phone so then its ready to open when at the location on Inis Oírr
An overview of the Open Form Pavilion of Air series via RTÉ Culture:
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2023/0327/1366079-new-music-dublin-welcomes-you-to-the-open-form-pavilion-of-air/
The Pailliún Aeir i bhFoirm Oscailte Inis Oírr (Inisheer Open Form Pavilion of Air) is a floating roof of sound across a section of the eastern end of the beach, triggered by GPS and accessed via a smartphone, headphones and the echoes.xyz app. Inspired by Polish architects Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s “Open Form” architectural concept (ca. 1959), this audiowork is one of 15 locations in 9 countries in the pan-European Open Form Pavilion of Air series, using sound and site-mapping to offer a playful renewal and reframing of public space as an essential place of engagement for the community.
By walking through different zones near the eastern end of the beach, while using your mobile phone, the Echoes app and headphones, you become a participatory listener producing a composition in real-time. Your navigation creates a unique choreography via GPS, combining and changing sounds mapped along the site through the app. Hear this beachside location and its context become transformed by the sounds forming this floating acoustic architecture, revealing an immersive, profoundly spatial and physical experience. The Pavilion has no visible presence outside the app and can only be accessed and enjoyed at the site on Inis Oírr.
Also in the Open Form Pavilion of Air series:
