While your body moves up and down, you feel your own body slow down. The same movement makes two large ceramic flutes exhale, producing long, low, slow tones like a deep, soothing 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 utilizes only human energy and gravity and transforms this into a personal and intimate experience. 

long low slow baden grew from 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 arises. This led her to conceive and create her own instruments, primarily made of clay. Inspired by the richness of possible sound colors that 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)
Execution: Gemma Luz Bosch

The art program is made possible with support from Mondriaan Fonds and De Versterking.