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Hear the crowd's roar?. Now, catch the action with the sound. - SAMPATH KUMAR G.P.

Watching replays of your favourite moments of the World Cup at the Virtual Replay Web site (http://bgi.dr.dk/sporten/index.php) or the BBC news Web site is one thing, but to experience the euphoria or the heart-break of that moment, you need one more element to stir your senses - sound.

There is a dichotomy in the way we watch different channels on television: while watching the business channel, the visual, the scrolling stock ticker, is all important, and you don't mind muting the sound; but while watching the sports channel, you might miss the visual, but the sound - the hush, or the roar - is most important.

Tilman Küntzel, an artist exhibiting at the Sonambiente Berlin 2006 exhibition, on till July 16, has created an installation to enrich our auditory senses about the FIFA World Cup 2006. It is an exhibit with 64 football-like installations, each of which will eventually play an audio collage of the radio commentaries in the languages of the opponents of each match in the World Cup. Details are available at http://www.sonambiente.net/en/04_artists/4M2kun_werk.html.

So, with each incident of the game, we get a perspective of the feelings of each side's commentators. Every moment is fraught with a potential `Yes!' and "Oh, no!" simultaneously. And just in case you get too excited with all the sound-driven adrenalin, the artist has added a sleeping tube, a blood pressure monitoring station and a defibrillator as part of the installation!

N. Nagaraj

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