In 2020 Matteo Marangoni and Dieter Vandoren contributed to the magazine “De Kritieke Massa” published by Into the Great Wide Open.
Their contribution to the magazine consisted of the manual to create the DIY electronics project “Komorebi Larva” as well as Matteo Marangoni’s essay “On Frogs, Fireflies, Invention and Imitation”.
“There is nothing original in my work. The thought strikes me with a mix of shame and feeling of connection, as I read once again through the pages of a book over the work of scientist turned artist Felix Hess. As a bachelor student in Florence, while doing research for my thesis on sound art over a decade ago, I was scouring international publications, when I ran into his work, documented in the beautiful monographic catalogue “Light as Air” (Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken with Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2001). The story of Felix Hess is an inspiring example of crossover between art and science: once a physicist, during his doctoral work on the aerodynamics of boomerangs, he fell in love with the “frog concerts” which he took the habit of eavesdropping upon in Australia…”
