To the Dead Poplar / To the Old Beech Tree

VENUE: Casino Display, 1, rue de la Loge

Opening times:

22-24.10.2025 | 13:00 - 17:00
28-30.10.2025 | 13:00 - 17:00

Sam Erpelding’s residency is divided into two phases: the first spans two months in Luxembourg, involving both the University of Luxembourg and Casino Display, followed by two additional months in Taipei at C-Lab’s Taiwan Sound Lab. To the Dead Poplar / To the Old Beech Tree is the exhibition resulting from the first phase of his residency. It reflects various temporalities, including research initiated during his PhD at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität, interactions with students and researchers at the University of Luxembourg, and time spent at Casino Display. 

The exhibition consists of sound installations emerging from Erpelding's ecoacoustic research into notions such as “natural quiet,” bat social calls, and more. It also reflects on compositional strategies for working with field recordings. 

SYMPOSIUM

This symposium will explore sound through the themes of acoustic ecology and compositional strategies, focusing on the relationships between nature, technology, and urban space.

Guest speakers:

César Reyes Nájera is an architect and postdoctoral researcher in the field of Urban Regeneration at the University of Luxembourg. His work explores urban social dynamics and degrowth strategies to critically update the notion of sustainable development. He holds a PhD in Bio-climatic Construction Systems and Materials. His editorial work specialises in critical books on architecture and its intersection with social sciences and politics. With a marked focus on communication through hybrid media he is constantly in search of innovative practices, alternative narratives, new models of retribution of knowledge and activism at grassroots level in the field of architecture. He has been co-curator and curatorial consultant for Think Space (DAZ, Zagreb 2013), AdhocracyATHENS (Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens 2015), Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales (Matadero, Madrid 2020-21), and Archis Adviser for VOLUME Magazine since 2013. He is project manager of dpr-barcelona for Future Architecture platform (Creative Europe, EU) since 2016. 

Sebastian Döring is a research and development specialist at the C²DH. He carries out the research activities within the framework of the project Maison du Son under the supervision of Andreas Fickers. Sebastian has been developing concepts and guidelines to ensure functional preservation of technical objects in university collections since 2009. One key aspect of his work is the enquiry of time critical processes in oscillating and feedback or algorithmic controlled devices in order to understand the principles of time based media. Currently he is working out and updating Friedrich Kittler’s ‘information-theoretical materialism’. Sebastian has been contributing to Cultural Techniques and Media archaeological approaches both hands-on and on a theoretical level. 
 
Enrique Mendoza, born in Mexico City and based in Vienna, is an electroacoustic music artist specialising in composition, live electronics, and sound diffusion in Spatial Audio. His work integrates analog synthesisers, digital processing, 3D immersive music technology, and multi-channel systems to create expanded sonic experiences. He is pursuing a Doctor of Arts degree at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz, Austria, where he also lectures in Electroacoustic Music.