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a Composition:
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2007:
Black Box
[site-specific installation for 1 speaker, 1 microphone and the PRIM standing-wave]
Info:
Black Box was originally a means of recording the PRIM standing wave for the 5.1-audio piece Black Box Picnic (semaphore is dead), which was based on recordings of empty and open spaces. In the middle of the large entrance hall of the PRIM building in Montréal, a standing-wave occurs as one walks into the round graphic on the floor. Into this, sounds of a clipped saxophone were thrown via the speaker, and the reflection of the standing-wave picked up via the microphone pointing at the floor. This 'disembodied performer' turned into an installation for a presentation of Black Box Picnic at PRIM, where the 5.1-audio piece was composed. The audience members had to walk past the Black Box installation to go downstairs, where the 5.1-audio piece was looping. This contextualised the 5.1 piece, and also left confusing audio overlaps occuring between the two. A performance of the solo-computer-piece your momma don't live here no more also took place in the space, during which the installation was sampled to make some of the live sounds in the computer-piece.
Photos:
above - recording with Black Box
above - close-up of Black Box in situ
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above - a site-specific performance of your momma don't live here no more with the Black Box installation as a sound-source [photo by Rob Kennedy]
Audio:
extract 1 from actual installation (not a recording of the event)
extract 2 from actual installation (not a recording of the event)
