Echo Chamber

'Echo Chamber' resulted from a year long radio residency at the independent art radio Lumpenstation, Echo Chamber contains three episodes in total.

Episode 1 explores the topics 'voice' and 'narrativ'. It is a discussion with Dina Hungerbühler who has a MSc in law and political science with focus on underrepresented minorities and Sophie Diggelmann, lead singer of the band Velvet Two Stripes. Consequently in the conversation Diggelmann represents the singular voice (that is heard by many) and Hungerbühler represents the voice of the plural (f.e. as a representation of a community).

Episode 2 is an analysis of the greek Myth of Echo and Narcissus, the sound phenomena of echo/reverberation and phenomenological intersections of the two. This connected with thoughts of the first episode leads to a conclusive philosophical deconstruction of the political phenomenon of "echo chambers".

Episode 3 was a one hour long recorded spoken word performance at a reverberation chamber of EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) in Zürich. In it the performers explored the effect the nearly 8 seconds of reverberation had to our voice and conversations. Conclusively we realised how difficult it is to listen when the sound of the own voice is still resonating.