Mark Fell & Roc Jinénez de Cisneros - The Morning Line, 2008

When asked, "Why doesn't your sound move from speaker to speaker?" prominent sound artist Yasunao Tone replied, "Why is this necessary when the audience can move around the sound?"
A very short proof of Forester's rigidity result develops this position: rather than moving around the audience, as is typical of multispeaker pieces, here the sound itself is rigid. The listener is placed within and moves through a complex matrix of digital oscillators, each producing one component of the overall sound: a series of precisely synchronized and desynchronized pulses, each one static in a spatial dimension but evolving in a harmonic one.
This reversal of roles undermines the traditional placement of a static listener and frontal stage that originated in Italian Renaissance palaces, a paradigm comparable to the invention of one-point perspective in the visual arts. This "first person" model of musical performance is still evident today in nearly all electro-acoustic and computer-music - complete with all the baggage of its visual counterpart. (MF/RJC)

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