For the 2003 edition of the Avanto Festival in Helsinki we did a new commissioned piece called AVANTILATOR – for one hundred office fans. The Kiasma Theatre was a perfect place for this project. We build all sorts of instruments out of the fans, searching for their special accoustic quallities. Avantilator was a mixture of a sound art installation and a live concert. The audience was free to mingle among the fans or stay anywhere they like in the theatre to take in the performance. The concert was going on for 4 hours …
Geert-Jan Hobijn (NL), Carlo Crovato (GB/D)