Presented at Building New Aarau in Noseland, Schöftland, Aargau, Switzerland on 04.12.2016

The citizens who wish to become citizens of Neu Aarau are able to express their wishes in a ten-second period through the microphone. Their wishes are recorded and play backed in a sound cloud with the previously recorded sound desires. A coin noise accompanies the recordings and creates the feeling of a fountain.

The sound desires are not always to be heard, however, since a programming patch always makes them 5% quieter and makes them disappear a bit more throughout their play.

Bruno Schlatter founded the fictional land of Noseland, which is located in Schöftland, Aargau, in 2008. The exhibition Building Neu Aarau dealt with the discussion about the fictitious city as a new part of Noseland.

Andreas Dietsch was a German writer, who wrote about the fictitious attempts to build a new city “New Aarau” – the future capital of “Neu Helvetia”; and documented them in a diary. The writer lived in the same house in which Bruno Schlatter lives nowadays and Schlatter takes a historical reference to his writings.