“Frames” is composed only with sounds of spinning tops (e.g. whistling spinning tops made of ivory, or humming spinning tops e.g. from the company Boltz). The recording of the spinning top sounds was made possible by Lourens Bas, who made his spinning top collection in Hoorn (The Netherlands) available for this purpose. In addition, Marcel Wierkx wrote a special software which could move the spinning tops in the acoustic space.

In 2002, an exhibition was organized at the Galerie Rachel Haferkamp under the title “Frames, Neither of the Two”; the following text: Sound, momentum and form of the spinning top are the focus of the exhibition “Frames”. An interplay of forces and movements brought together by the sound artist and composer Michael Fahres and the painter Klaus G. Gaida in the Galerie Rachel Haferkamp.
Three linked compositions could be heard on the two levels of the gallery, two in 4 channel technique (Frames). The connecting element was a sound sculpture, a 1.50m high humming top “Fram”, which has its composition firmly installed inside. 12 accordion free reed aerophones (accordion) are mounted in the spinning top. I have designed the sound spectrum especially for “frames”. These sound worlds are visually condensed by Klaus G. Gaida through 13 large-format pictures (“Luftkampf”). After energetically tonal as well as visual impressions on the ground floor, the visitor could retreat to the first floor for a world of generative (meditative) sound experience.