With a site specific and live audio-visual installation on renewable energies, the sound pioneer Bill Fontana dives into the acoustic and visual structures of water, wind and geothermal energy.

Since the beginning of his artistic career, Fontana has been challenging environmental questions through the possibility of a holistic perception of the “overlooked”. As in the famous case of his early project Sonic Projections from Schloßberg in Graz (1988), Fontana uses the culturally defined environment as the source of his musical information that he offers through transmission and composition to a wider public.

Beyond instrumented and composed music, his work centres on the activation of conscious listening and an awareness of sound qualities and harmonies in cultural production and everyday life. With the help of continuously evolving technical instruments and unfamiliar localization, he makes characteristics of landscapes, and manmade architecture and engineering perceivable, while creating site specific, and locally rooted immersive sound sculptures. In his most recent audio-visual work, acoustic and visual patterns overlap in mesmerizing harmony "so as to become fully present" (Fontana).