On the glass roof of a high-speed railway station building at Potsdamer Platz, 160 existing fluorescent tubes provide the starting situation, basic structure and idea for <MOVINGLIGHTFIELD 01>, the sound and light installation in public space. All the fluorescent tubes are controlled by independently developed hardware and switch on and off, in a manner reminiscent of a choreographed composition, at highly variable intervals: in this way, light signals, sequences of moving light and ribbons of lights are inscribed on the glass roof. Sounds of the neon lights switching on are picked up by 160 contact microphones and shunted in real time to a second control system that feeds the 16 loudspeakers placed throughout the station. These move the sound of the fluorescent tubes in different sequences and at varying speeds through the space.
Sensors monitor the station with its urban activity on the stairs and escalators. Their data in turn manipulates the installation's control system and the composition of the light and sound field itself – the choreography is permanently overwritten by its site (architectonic space, fluorescent tubes) and by the function of its location (transit area, passage) with its human activity. [dy'na:mo].