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As humans we tend to hear in a
horizontal plane. Speech, music
performance and TV and radio broadcast are ready examples of typically
horizontal or near-horizontal listening situations.
But the human ear hears in four-dimensions, such that across time
perceptions
of different altitudes and depths of sound are quite possible. While
standing in
this installation different planes or strata of sound become apparent.
Further, sound motion from loudspeaker to loudspeaker across and
between strata dynamically engages the space creating field effects of
shifting depths.
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Ten risers offer listening decks where visitors
may ‘flatten’ the four-dimensional sound images by lying down. All
sound activity then becomes face forward and above: the listener is now
entirely under sound under...
The sole sonic source for the installation is spatial resonance
extracted from the silence (room tone) of the site and returned to the
church in multi-channel sound. By enhancing this signature self-sound
of the site the installation amplifies human intuitive notions of site
and self 'presence,' as rarely confronted aural senses of site-space
are transformed into a plastic art medium.
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Built in 1694-1700, St. Lawrence
Church is now deconsecrated, serving as an art installation exhibition
space only. Once or twice a year international artists are invited to
produce work in this notable Baroque structure.
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