Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation

Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation (2025)
Thunder Sheet Machine / Le Grand Souffle (2025)

66 motorized metal sheets, wind machines, video projection, images and sculptures

A large scale installation that transforms sound and wind into a sensory and political experience. Visitors enter a space filled with motorized thunder sheets and leaf blowers, creating a composed landscape of storm, howl, breath, and vibration. The piece confronts the audience with the aesthetics of intensified air – between force and resistance, nature and technology. It invites reflection on the ambivalence of natural phenomena and their political implications, particularly with regard to climate change and human-made geology. Specially 3D-printed whistles allow visitors to actively join the storm of sound through their own exhalation. The piece merges physical phenomenality with expressive tension, drawing a seismographic portrait of our current fears and perceptual crises—an invitation to move, to listen, and to exhale.

In Exhibition:
■ Einzelausstellung „JET WHISTLES / The Great Exhalation“ at ULTIMA Festival (Oslo, Norway), 11-14.9.2025 [ultima.no]
■ Einzelausstellung „Thunder Sheet Machine / Le Grand Souffle“ at Musica Strasbourg Festival (Strasbourg, France), 20.9. – 4.10.2025 [festivalmusica.fr]
■ Tete-a-tete, Concertgebouw Brugge (Belgium), 6.2. – .4.3.2026 [tete-a-tete]
■ La Muse en Circuit / IRCAM Paris (France), 6.2027

Texts:
■ Catalogue
■ Article: „installation „Thunder Sheet Machine Le Grand Souffle“ Johannes Kreidler : le vent se lève à MUSICA à la HEAR“ von Genevieve Charras
■ Article: „Aura dans la tempête“ by Johannes Kredler (french translation)