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On 15 May visitors to the Culture Mile in Enschede can see and hear the first sound project to be created by the internationally reputed sound artist Bill Fontana in a public space in the Netherlands. For this he has developed a project in the series Speeds of Time for the Rijksmuseum Twenthe. This series of interactive sound sculptures was designed in 2004 en 2008 for the bells of the Big Ben in London. Fontana mixed the sound of the bells with a digital musical composition, which multiplied each tick of the clock and stroke of the bell. For the new version of Speeds of Time in the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Fontana applied the interactive composition to the ticking and chimes of the 18th century clocks in the Gobelin Room. It is for the first time that Speeds of Time is being used for other clocks than Big Ben. Gobelinzaal.jpg Sound and Light Art along the Culture Mile in Enschede Bill Fontana has developed his first project in Dutch public space on the Culture Mile in Enschede. The Culture Mile is a route which is unique in the Netherlands: it leads visitors from Enschede city centre to the Roombeek district along several cultural institutions, such as the National Muziekkwartier, the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, TwentseWelle and the 21 rozendaal exhibition space for contemporary art. There are also sound and light art installations along the route, which make walking the route something quite special. From 15 May the project of Bill Fontana can be heard at different locations along the Culture Mile. The first sounds come from the tower of the Grote Kerk on the Oude Markt (Old Market). It ends on the internal street in the cultural complex Het Rozendaal. Bill Fontana Bill Fontana is an American sound artist (Cleveland, Ohio, 1947) who lives and works in San Francisco. He studied music and philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He studied and worked as a composer in Australia, Japan and Germany. He started making sound sculptures in 1976 and has been seen and heard throughout the world. Some of these sculptures were created for the Venice Biennale (1999), the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid (1995), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1991), Tate Modern, London (2006) and Madison Square Park in New York (2007). His most well-known works include Distant Trains, Satellite Ear Bridge Cologne / San Francisco, Journey Through My Sound Sculptures, The Sound of an Unblown Flute, and Panoramic Echoes.