The building reverberates with hammer blows. Incessantly, the ear-battering tumult swells through the rooms, wandering along the walls, developing a voluminous resonance body whose vibrations and sounds turn the room into a sculpture.

100 people hammer nails into wood according to a score with a length of 30 minutes. For this sound sculpture, some 10,000 nails were hammered into blocks of wood. The sound tilts the architecture and undulates right through it. The precisely orchestrated hammer blows overlap arhythmically.

“IN ORDER”, the work presents a poem composed and read by slam poet MC Jabber. Jabber’s lightning delivery is in itself almost literally super-human, and opens the mind to the extraordinary potential of a text that is profound and deeply sensitive – read in a way and at a velocity that hardly allow the listener to discern the actual words spoken. Only the phonetic ghost, which is also a macro-structure, is continuously perceptible, and Henderson has used this residue of phonemes to structure the composition, as space, as location and as movement.

Douglas Henderson, born in 1960 in Baltimore, USA, now lives in Berlin. His installations of sound, sculpture and space create synaesthetic experiences and play with conventional spatial perception.