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Deutsche Kirche 2009 [indeterminate]

Sound artist Paul Sutherland has been at the forefront of sound art production in Christchurch since the mid 1980s, performing with early Christchurch experimental groups including The Incidentals and Don't Make Noise as well as occasional solo performances. He has been producing live sounds using debris and gramophones with local band Into The Void since 1987. He has also collaborated with artists as diverse as et al. and Nathan Pohio. In Deutsche Kirche Sutherland reflects on the German Church that once stood on the very site of the Subsonic bunker, and the fate of its bells. Felt to be symbols of German nationalism that therefore posed an 'affront to the allies', they were ceremonially broken up in 1918. Sutherland brings field recordings taken in the region of the church into the bunker and overlays them with a machine-generated voice recounting aspects of the history of the site.