“The history of Timisoara brought to my attention the endless list of innovative achievements of the city across the centuries. Timisoara is the first city in the Habsburg monarchy with street lighting (1760) and the first European city to be lit with electric street lamps in 1884.
Then there’s an ancient tradition in hydrotechnical works. The city was built on swampy areas and between 1728 and 1732 was created the Bega Canal, the first navigable channel in Romania. With the Stema – Small has been created a water supply system was created already in 1732. It was one of the oldest water supply systems in the current territory of the country, except for the underground aqueducts built by the Romans in the province of Dacia in antiquity. In 1771 the ‘Temeswarer Nachrichten’ was the first newspaper in Romania and the first German newspaper in Southeast Europe. In 1910 “Turbines” is the first hydropower plant on a river in our country. Between 1907 and 1910, the hydroelectric power plant was built on Bega at the entrance to the Fabric district. The construction has a special significance, both from a technical and architectural point of view, being one of the most beautiful secession buildings in the industrial heritage of Timisoara. In 1938 the first machine worldwide for welding railway and tram rails, an invention of professor Corneliu Miklosi. Last but not least we shouldn’t forget MECIPT1 (Mașina Electronică de Calcul a Institutului Politehnic Timișoara), the first computer built in Romania in 1969.

Looking at this awesome series of pioneering inventions, I thought about an original creation: a sound installation to be located in the public space at the centre of the city.

The installation will be made out of sounds freely related to this history. This will include water, electricity, trams, printing machines, electronic sounds, and soundscapes from Timisoara.”