What is time? An engineer would say: precision. For a physicist time is change and relativity and for musicians it is tempo and agogics. In a performance that oscillates between installation and concert format, the Kollektiv Mycelium explores this precious resource of everyday life: time.

Over the centuries, measuring time has become ever more accurate: from the sundial and the hourglass, to mechanical watches, quartz watches and atomic clocks. In physics however, Einstein proved that an absolute coordinate system of time doesn’t exist. Also, the perception of time in music is subjective depending on space, density, speed and the personal state of the listener.

In the installation, Mycelium shows the contradictory auto-ethnographic, scientific cultural wrangle with time.

The concert hall is transformed into an apartment during the performance and the exhibited everyday objects come to life. Sensory impressions, actions and music are superimposed. We stretch, slow down, speed up, superimpose and fold the perception of time through the music. Sometimes composed, sometimes coincidental.

Together with the Cern physicist Robert Kieffer and the engineer Benjamin Voumard, the audio designer Robert Torche developed curious instruments with which physical data from cosmic radiation and the acoustics of the room generate random live sounds and scores.

Space-time and elementary building blocks of the matter that surrounds us are made audible and visible.