Event Horizon is a term in Cosmology for
the borders of Black Holes. Gravity is so strong at these boundaries
that nothing, not even light, can pass beyond. This installation, a
meditation on the cosmic phenomenon, examines sound via the temporal
border between sonic non-event and event – the horizon that registers
the phenomenon of silence to sound
Humans drift in a subjective, uneven time as dictated by various
activities. But emotional time still has distinct envelopes that
feature a temporal beginning, middle and end. Sound, as philosopher
Suzanne Langer has described, might imitate this envelope, such that a
portrayal of emotional temporality is not only produced, but also
capable of extension.
INSTALLATION SCHEDULE
Wed 4-8PM
Fri 10AM - 2PM (except Mar 16)
Sun 12-2PM (except Mar 11 & 18)
Similarly, time-based sound might extend the moment of event inception,
as if the ‘now-ness’ of an initiated sound is pulling us forward in
time. Paradoxically these sounds also root us in a subjective instant
of experience as our emotional sensibilities become sustained and
caught in the phenomenological moment. Song and opera take advantage of
this precise nature of sound in sustaining an
emotion as it becomes available in a narrative.
EVENT HORIZONS offers the moments before and during
sound event inceptions that emerge from the tuned self-sound of the
cathedral itself. These event inceptions are entirely rooted in place.
In fact, the events, which the installation brings to the fore, are
already embedded in the
sound of the space.
As these inceptions merge with their source of origin the cathedral
offers a continuum of ongoing event, a horizon without end.
