“object study 1” is a multichannel composition developed using site-specific methods in the 200 m tunnel at the basement level of het Hem. “Object” in this piece refers to the “voice-object “ as it is described by Mladen Dolar – psychologically, the pivotal point of our listening. The synthetic and organic relation here is explored through working with standing waves of the space in order to obscure the sense of locality of sound, as well as working with vowel-formant patterns that relate to the resonant frequencies of the room. Methods of overdubbing and stochastic synthesis are also used in the piece. Some of the techniques were inspired by works of Suzanne Ciani and Maryanne Amacher.

object study 1 (binaural)

Live set based on an improvisation with 3 custom additive synthesis algorithms for SuperCollider in Rīgas Mākslas Telpa, Riga, Latvia, 18.02.2024 (https://www.instagram.com/p/C3PsIw3iV9_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==). The performance is a complimentary piece to Beate's Poikāne's exhibition “Parade of flying episodes” that has greatly been inspired by Gaston Bachelard's writings on the poetics of flying in dreams. TThe performance attempts to work with the bodily sensation of flying through a set of simple equations – parabolic, linear, exponential, stochastic.

Andrejs Poikāns

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