Rosenfeld s surround-sound installation „Delusional Situation“ was created for and first exhibited at the Whitney Museum s 2002 Biennial Exhibition, in New York. She describes the DVD-A, 9-minute Surround-Sound 5.1 work s name as a reference to the poem "Ich kenne dich" by Paul Celan containing the lines: "You all, all real, I all delusion."

As well as being a love poem, "Ich kenne dich ..." seems to me to formulate in a beautiful way a person s problematic situation between inner and outer consciousnesses, or inner and outer worlds. Where is the real reality? Outside of ourselves coming in? Inside ourselves and flowing out? In "Delusional Situation" I attempted to translate this problem into a sonic idea: the listener is in a real world, made of sounds. The listener is observing from the centre and then suddenly from the periphery, and then to a new centre, and on and on. The sounds from guitar fragments (performed by many sheer frost orchestra volunteers) that I then remixed on vinyl and finally dismantled and reassembled again in Pro Tools, describe not an inner world, but an outer world imperfectly filtering in. The listener s location is not fixed in this world, nor are the meanings of the communications s/he is hearing clear.

Since the first performance of the composition in 1994, this project has been performed by many different ensembles trained to perform Rosenfeld s invented electric-guitar-improvising technique; it was documented in 2001 on the CD the sheer frost orchestra - drop, hop, drone, scratch, slide & A for anything (Vienna: Charhizma, 2001).

Marina Rosenfeld (USA), born 1968. Her sound compositions, live performances and installations have been presented internationally, by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum, the Kitchen, the Knitting Factory, Tonic, Artists Space, Greene Naftali Gallery, Curt Marcus Gallery, Murray Guy Gallery in New York, to name but a few; Resistance Fluctuations Festival and LACE (Los Angeles); at the Ars Electronica festival (Linz); Musikprotokoll festival (Graz); Pro Musica Nova festival (Bremen); STEIM (Amsterdam); Echoraum (Vienna); and many others. Marina's other CDs include „theforestthegardenthesea: music from fragment opera“ (Charhizma, 1999), produced by Mayo Thompson (of Red Krayola); and several compilations, including „Bitstreams“ sound works from the exhibition at the Whitney Museum.