Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation – Dark Chamber (2026)

70 Motorisierte Metallplatten, 7 Windmaschinen, Videoprojektion

„From increasingly frequent and intense storms to turbines installed on occupied territory: air in motion is intertwined with politics, land rights, and the climate crisis. Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation, creates a state of liveliness in air that triggers confrontation: a force that literally blows in your face. Consisting of Johannes Kreidler’s own Thunder Sheet Machine instruments, in which sheets of aluminum, steel, bronze, copper, zinc, and silver are motorized to create compositions with air, vibrations and pressure. The installation generates contrasts between strength and vulnerability, natural elements and technology. 

Johannes Kreidler has a long-standing interest in using precise motors to control physical sound; produced by instruments or by membranes, strings, plates, and similar materials. He creates installations that allow him to explore his robotic instruments as quasi-organisms; beings in their own right, posing questions around agency and authorship. „

(Lauren Jetty, Instrument Inventor`s Initiative)

Ausstellungen:
■ „JET WHISTLES / The Grand Exhalation“ at ULTIMA Festival (Oslo, Norway), 11-14.9.2025 [ultima.no]
■ „Thunder Sheet Machine / Le Grand Souffle“ at Musica Strasbourg Festival (France), 20.9. – 4.10.2025 [festivalmusica.fr]
■ Tête-à-Tête, Concertgebouw Brugge (Belgium), 6.2. – .4.3.2026 [tete-a-tete]
■ Rewire Den Haag / Proximity Music, (Netherlands), 9.-12. 4.2026
■ Pling! Design Hören, Musuem für Gestaltung Zürich (Videodokumentation) 21.5. – 20.9. .2026
■ La Muse en Circuit / IRCAM Paris (France), 6.2027

Texte:
■ Katalog
■ Artikel: „installation „Thunder Sheet Machine Le Grand Souffle“ Johannes Kreidler : le vent se lève à MUSICA à la HEAR“ von Genevieve Charras
■ Artikel: „Aura dans la tempête“ von Johannes Kredler (französische Übersetzung)