ceci n'est pas une boulangerie

ceci n’est pas une boulangerie is a 5 channel sound installation created for the site, in Eppan, of an old bakery, now closed and all traces of it erased. The title references the famous Rene Magritte painting of a pipe, entitled “ceci n’est pas une pipe”. In this case there is no longer a bakery, and I have created a sound-painting of images that accumulate around bread -- cutting the loaf, the crumbs on the plate, the fire in the oven, the butter, the wine, all the dreams that revolve around our custom with bakeries. These are presented in a form of sonic surrealism, where the recordings of these simple familiar sounds are examined in an architectural microscope, putting the listener inside them, so they are experienced with a reorganized scale and hybridity: a falling breadcrumb is heard in gigantic detail, a knife blade melts into the steam of the coffee-maker, the wine bottle morphs into a torn crust. I propose the extended hallucination of this absent locus, as it posthumously echoes into our dreams of sustenance and satisfaction. These are the clouds of memory that billow from this architecture, the dreams and ghosts that circulate in this passageway after so many people have left the shop with their loaves under their arms.