Manuel Cyrill


Aeolian scores (2026)





Wind energy is part of a multi-layered, mostly invisible network of atmospheric, ecological, and technical processes. Infrastructure, such as wind turbines, forms a visible layer within this network, while the wind itself can be understood as the result of a complex interplay of global climatic conditions.


Aeolian Scores takes these interpenetrating layers as a starting point to understand wind not as a static natural phenomenon, but as a relational event within a dynamic structure of energy flows, meteorological processes, and technical devices. The work thus refers to often invisible networks that structure landscapes, energy production, and our perception.


At the heart of the work is a self-developed method for recording air currents and translating and storing them as electrical signals. These data are understood as scores: as notations of a temporal event, as the organization of a possible performance in time, as a representation of intensities and trajectories, but not as the event itself.



For the present series of works, air currents were recorded successively at six different locations in the vicinity of the Untersiebenbrunn wind farm in October 2025. The recordings document each a local and temporal segment of the atmospheric process and not an isolated state. Based on these site-specific recordings, six independent scores are created, which depict the different temporal structures of the same landscape.


The work is thus understood as a kind of atmospheric cartography, in which temporal trajectories are recorded instead of geographical coordinates or topographical data. The individual scores form a network of observation points that are related to each other not by spatial distance, but by shared movements of the air currents within the atmosphere.



The recorded notations are transformed into six kinetic sculptures. Fans, microcontrollers, and springs in jars translate the stored air currents into movements, turning them into a fleeting dance. The installation functions as an interpretation of a primal moment: Just as musicians read and perform scores, technical devices read the data and translate it into new events.


The work focuses on the relationships between atmosphere, energy, and infrastructure. Wind turbines mark visible intersections of a much larger system of interactions, whose dynamics extend from global weather patterns to local air currents. Aeolian Scores understands these processes not as separate levels, but as part of a shared composition.


The work thus proposes viewing landscape not as a static image, but as an ongoing performance. Atmospheric forces, technical systems, and human interventions act like the interwoven voices of a dynamic structure. What becomes visible is not the wind itself, but the temporal structures and invisible networks that produce it.