Peter Breitenbach
is a sound artist whose work traverses sound installation, performative sound art and sound for theatre and dance. In his installations and performances he is investigating the relationship of movement and sound, through the development of software and hardware as part of sculptural objects and instruments.
Pastorale
By Philipp Lachenmann
Video | Sound Design
About
A moving film image à la "A Painting with Figures in a Landscape".
A fallow area below a busy road, with a high-rise hotel ruin in the center behind it. Young people in kaftans are spread out across the square and a hill, talking or trying to get internet reception with their mobile phones.
The characters in the landscape seem preoccupied with themselves. Ennui.
People cross the pictorial space. The traffic flows. The sky is changing. A dog stands in the bush, almost motionless. In the background on different levels of the building structure you can see explosions, fires are spreading, the building is ablaze.
Nobody takes notice of the inferno in the skyscraper.
Big void meets big drama.
The high rise ruin in Pastorale stood for 25 years as an abandoned housing structure, without history, unoccupied, fenced off and impassable. A temporary template for a hotel idea, an empty vertical conceived meeting place, still dominantly upright, like an oversized, lost, forgotten sculpture in space. In 2023, the construction works on the building have resumed to finish it into a hotel.
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- PASTORALE, 2018/2022
8K Digital Video
16:30 min
Production Year: 2018/2022
Filmed October 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Finished January 2022.
Project by: Philipp Lachenmann
Camera: Emre Yalçın
Camera Assistant: Hüseyin Acar
Sound: Peter Breitenbach
Digital Effects: Magda Tuzinkiewicz
Geniuspark Istanbul
Post Production: Till Beckmann
Production: Çiğdem İkiışık
Photography: Yvonne Wahl, Jan Ralske
Produced by: Cultural Academy Tarabya, Goethe Institute Istanbul, Scenic View Production
Thanks to Pia Entenmann, Çiğdem İkiışık, Jacobien Vlasman
and Yousaf K., Momtaz K., Talash H., Saeed J., Arab J., Habib G., Yaqoob K., Kamran K., Abdul Q., Raoof M.
PASTORALE © Philipp Lachenmann 202
- Sound
The sound work extends the film’s observation into the acoustic field. It begins in realism — distant traffic, wind moving through overgrowth, the chirring of crickets, a dog somewhere far off — and slowly drifts toward abstraction. The tonal space follows the shifting light. The composition remains restrained, observational. It listens rather than comments, tracing the same quiet dissonance that defines the image: the coexistence of banality and catastrophe.