Spatial sounding object with a formation
of eleven loudspeakers. Premiere: Berliner Festwochen 1995
My spatial sound installations are the result of an artistic
development project realized between 1990 and 1992. The basic
idea of this room related art project is to move music three-dimensionally
through space. The concept of including sound movement as a supplementary
parameter in composition is a consequence of my special interest
in electro-acoustic music.
A special quality of electro-acoustic music is its medium
- the loudspeaker, the so-called sound source, the source of
electronic sound. For acoustic instruments the location of sound
production is identical to the location where the sound is emitted;
in contrast, in electronic music these two events occur at different
locations. The arising possibility to position sound sources
at any desired location, thereby creating separate sound-spaces
in the overall space, promoted my interest in the development
of loudspeaker installations. The loudspeakers form a matrix
by which sounds are positioned in or moved through space.
The result is a sound corpus which emits music in different
states of motion. The listener is confronted with virtual sound-spaces,
their specific character being the real three-dimensional spatialization
of sound. In particular the precisely controlled timing of the
sounds' movements in synchronization with the digital production
of sound brings about a clearly defined experience of an animated
sound distribution. This and the movement of the people in the
room themselves allows them to experience analogies with their
familiar tangible, organic & acoustic environments, where
noises and sounds flow into each other.
Three-dimensional sound movements require substantial hard-
and software, which has been especially conceived and built by
Sukandar Kartadinata. Over the years he has been responsible
for all technical aspects involved in the project.
Since 1992 I have been creating space oriented sound installations
in different ways - as sound sculptures and objects, as walk
about space sound corpora and concert/installation hybrids. As
an example for a work that focuses on the 'object' aspect of
my installations have a look at the picture of the 'Hörbild'
which you can find on this page. Several pieces have been composed
for this object during the last three years, by me as well as
co-operating composer Joachim Krebs.
My website TopoPhonias provides information about my
artistic work in general and the specific sound installations.
The essay "The Spiritual Location of Sound - an example
for the integration of sound movement as further musical parameter
in composition" explains how the new possibilities offered
by the three-dimensional movement of sound in space affect the
spiritual process of composing.
One of her younger projects is Sonic Rooms. Go to the
P-ART JOURNAL
#37 (< click) or visit the new homepage of the
artist couple Sabine Schaefer / Joachim Krebs: <http://www.sabineschaeferjoachimkrebs.de>
Sabine SCHAEFER
Sabine Schäfer
Liegnitzer Str. 4a-b,
D- 76139 KARLSRUHE
Germany
E-mail click >: sabine
schaefer
Homepage: http://www.sabineschaefer.de
Other homepage:http://www.sabineschaeferjoachimkrebs.de
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TopoPhonias - an art project about the spatialization
of sound
Sabine Schaefer: idea, artistic development, composition,
production.
Homepage: http://www.sabineschaefer.de
E-mail: sabine@topophonien.de
Sukandar Kartadinata: sound distribution system (hardware
and software design).
Homepage:http://www.glui.de
E-mail: <sk@glui.de>
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