Titre : Komposition für vier Treppenhäuser und eine Person
 Durée : 3 min.30
 Année : 1999
 Données techniques :
support de tournage : numérique
support de diffusion : DV
couleur, sonore
Supported by Dirk Böll, Silke Hoss, Christin Bolewski, Heide Hagebölling
Produced by the Academy of Media Arts Cologne

The stairwell is probably one of the most frequently played rhythm instruments. Most of the people are able to master at least the slow and barely virtuoso basic rhythms of this sound body. Thus anybody can play the instrument for this composition, but it would be hard to be performed live. A video allows the simultaneity of the four staircases and the experience of a parallel picture- and sound composition. The charm of this is based on the usualness of its sources for rhythm and sound.
The video follows the different characteristics of the stairwell as an instrument and the rhythm of walking. Hence it creates an audiovisual choreography, which ruined my favourite shoes.