Brought to Life
Inge's idea is similarly sensitive and simultaneously unsettling, defining the roundabout at the corner of Berliner Ring and Bleer Straße in Monheim am Rhein. The sculpture "Haste Töne" (Haste Töne) captures the living environment of Monheim residents and encounters them on their way to work, shopping, or a meeting. Here, too, the scale determines the experience, making what seems familiar suddenly seem strange. Oversized and best seen from a bird's eye view, the artist group interprets the roundabout as a record player with a record playing on it. The island of the roundabout contains the spike and the label, and the road corresponds to the area of the record groove. At the side of the road, the arm of the record player waits for its turn, but the music is already playing: Staged as a record player, the soundscape of the roundabout can be experienced as concrete music. The rhythm and dynamics are determined by the cars and bicycles.