As your body moves up and down, you feel your own body slowing down. The same movement makes two large ceramic flutes exhale, sounding long, low, slow tones like a deep, calming sigh. 

The flutes create interference patterns that distort our perception of all the sounds around us; when you land on the ground and the flutes stop, you begin to hear the 'silence' - the sound of the environment. This performative installation uses only human energy and gravity, transforming it into a personal and intimate experience. 

long low slow baden grew out of the performative installation Baden, a co-creation with Annabel Schouten, Studio Onderstroom.

About Gemma Luz Bosch
Gemma Luz Bosch (1999, Spain) works from her fascination with how sound originates. This led her to invent and create her own instruments, primarily from clay. Inspired by the richness of possible timbres this natural material can produce, she has developed various ceramic sound and listening sculptures, which she uses to shape concerts and installations. Gemma graduated in 2024 with an MA from the ArtScience Interfaculty at the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) with an earlier version of long low slow baden.

Photos: Ira Grünberger
Baden concept: Gemma Luz Bosch, Annabel Schouten (Studio Onderstroom)
Performance: Gemma Luz Bosch

The art programme is made possible in part by the support of the Mondriaan Fund and De Versterking.