Work description
“Cicadas” is a sound installation that creates a new ambience by interweaving two contexts: the Mediterranean and the continental, nature and architecture, summer and winter.Throughout the day and part of the evening, loudspeakers installed around the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (MSU) play field recordings of cicadas captured in summer on a Dalmatian island. The sound changes with the time of day, simulating a natural rhythm through shifts in intensity and density. The discreet form acts as a gentle backdrop that evokes memories of summer, warmth, and the Mediterranean, forming a subtly transcendental atmosphere.
The installation was presented within the T-HT@msu.hr exhibition programme at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, 21 February – 26 March 2013. Loudspeakers were distributed around the entire building so that the sound radiated in all four directions and permeated the surrounding urban area.
tportal – “The MSU building will breathe to the sound of cicadas” (in Croatian)
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Author
Nenad Laktašić (b.1967, Zagreb) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb. Works as sound installations artist, scenographer and animator on animated films.
Member of Croatian Association of Film Professionals HDFD. Lives and works in Zagreb.