Audium

Audium is the only theatre of its kind in the world, pioneering the exploration of space in music. The theatre's 169 speakers bathe listeners in sounds that move past, over, and under them. "Sound sculptures" are performed in darkness in the 49-seat theatre.

Audium, located in San Francisco, has been developed since the 1950s by Stan Shaff and Doug McEachern. See http://www.audium.org for details, directions and show times.

This film was produced by Benjy Weinberger in 2005 as an exercise for a class on digital filmmaking taught by David L. Brown at Berkeley Extension in San Francisco.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• audium
• sound
• multichannel
• stan shaff
• doug mceachern
• sound sculpture

[Muwszciyqck]

@cloudsgrey, I always thought that sounds are better in deep darkness. The no vision helps you to concentrate. From all senses, the view it's the explicit one. You know, music requires more than visuals. Think of all the blind musicians, and the virtuosity they developed over the circumstances. Ask yourself what people do most: watch tv or listen music. Anyways, music it's invisible, like concepts or feelings. I think that's the whole point, an exclusive experience of sounds only.

[cloudsgrey]

why not digital visuals? instead of blackness?

[georgieclarkroden]

Excellent and inspiring... (georgieclarkroden - audio visual artist)