The concept of the water pavilion is based on the idea of creating a living organism. The organism expresses itself through architecture, light, images, water and sound. The behaviour of the organism is based on literal processes and metaphores about water. The fluid structure of the inside of the building is a shell for a continiously flowing and transforming world of water realised both with real water and virtual environments.
All the sounds are completely electronically produced. The speakers are placed in such a way that it is the building which is sounding. The building is alive and expresses itself via sound. There are 60 speakers distributed over the whole building. Each individual sound has its own character of movement and speed over the speakers. You can distinguish three different musical environments. The freshwater space is based on the metaphore of a river. The sounds are streaming over the spine starting at the entrance of the building. The cellar of the freshwater part is filled with a different material which is more dramatic and appear as water spirits suprising the visitors. The saltwater space presents a virtual sounding sky based on metaphores of weather and sea. Unknown voices from far speed through the inner structure. The sound material inside the building is interactive with the weather circumstances outside the building. The music in the three different spaces is not a fixed composition but is composed on the moment it is sounding. In this way the music will always be unique on any moment. The behaviour of the composition is again related to behaviours found in water.
