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TONE
3 channel electroacoustic sound
loudspeaker system
duration: 93 min
Dimensions variable
Sound Reasons 2016, India
05 – 09 January Installations at Vadehra Art Gallery, DELHI
16 – 22 January Sound Installations at 1 Shanthi Road, BANGALORE
More information about the festival here: http://soundreasons.in/festival/
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Sound artists and composers have always worked with the effect of sound. But what is the difference when one actively and consciously applies psychoacoustic knowledge to composition? These 33 sound-pieces try to artistically explore the brain’s and the ear’s relation between objectivation and subjective perception using a series of digitally created tone patterns to stimulate otoacoustic emissions within the listener’s ear. An otoacoustic emission (OAE) is a sound which is generated from within the inner ear. In the sound-piece I am concentrating on evoking auditory perceptual and physical stimuli – when at least two tones with close fundamental frequencies are sounded together, another tone whose frequency is the sum or difference of the original two tones is heard. This ghost tone is purely made up by the human ear and brain. To compose with “absent sound” is the main inspiration to add to this relatively seldom experienced phenomenon (although a lot of “experimental composers” have integrated “ear-tones” in their artistic practice – Maryanne Amacher, Jacob Kirkegaard, Marcus Schmickler, Thomas Ankersmit et al).
In the 33 scripted sound-pieces in the installation version I will focus on three unique characteristics of ear-tones, composing soundforms that take place and agitate between the inside and the outside of the listener’s heads an using a non-symmetrical 3 channel speaker layout for diffusion and inclusion of the physical space in the gallery.
Supported by: http://www.prohelvetia.in
Artists: Bernd Schurer, Salome Voegelin, Raul Keller, Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Ish S (diFfuSed beats), Hemant Sreekumar, Colin Black, Shun Owada and others.
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Categories: computer music, event, show
Tags: bernd schurer, computer music, installation, sound art, sound reasons, tone
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