Recently “Fernwärme” was installed in my dad's home in Berlin... Fernwärme literally means ‘far-away-heat’ and is in fact ‘long distance heat’: a building no longer has any boilers but it receives all hot water from a huge factory-like facility far away, thus it’s name ‘far-away-heat’. The flat is huge... it's on the ground floor of an old rental building... several poorly insulated pipes which provide the entire half of the building with hot water run vertically through two small rooms next to the kitchen. These pipes sing changing songs all day... late at night the sound gets really loud.

Anne Wellmer is a composer, performer and sound artist. Her work includes tape music, improvisation, installation and performance. Feedback, electromagnetic disturbances and barely audible acoustic phenomena make up essential aspects of her work. Anne Wellmer lives and works in The Hague (NL).

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