Sound-space: a listener’s creative outcome through an acousmatic performance at the Spatial Sound Institute

ABSTRACT

This research focuses on the invisible space built by sound as subject of study, developing through a practice-based methodology a creative process during a residency period in the Spatial Sound Institute (SSI), mainly to investigate the sound features of non-existing architectures. The process ended with a performance that invited listeners to experience a deeper awareness of perception for reaching spaces that exceed the limits of physical possibilities. In this sense, active listening becomes fundamental, not only for forming a personal interpretation of this expanded reality, but for creating sound-spaces from a performative experience.

KEYWORDS:

• Sound-space
• performance
• synesthesia
• perception
• audible architecture

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 Deleuze Différence et Répétition.

2 DeleuzeThe Logic of Sense.

3 Deleuze and Guattari Mil Mesetas.

4 Deleuze and Guattari Qu'est-ce que la philosophie?.

5 Origin Greek.

6 Some of the morphological categories experienced and defined by Leitner are: sound cube, spatial grid, oscillating corridor, sound portal, sound ramps, sound corridor, sound waves, among others.

7 The categories used by Bayle are based on the four listening modes proposed by Schaeffer (“Traité des objets musicaux” 61–74): hearing (écouter), listening (ouïr), understanding (entendre), and comprehending (comprendre).

8 https://spatialsoundinstitute.com/Space-Dystopia-2021.

9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KURMDKGZZg.

10 Impulse Response is a method of acoustic analysis that consists on a brief input signal for measuring the sound reaction of space.

11 Convolution Reverb is the process through which an input signal is modified through a virtual acoustic space, usually created from an impulse response.

12 Main question of the listening workshop post-performance.

13 Collective interview developed during the listening workshop.

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Funding

This work was supported by Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo folio 72200427 becas de doctorado BECAS CHILE and Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio Chile, Fondart Nacional, Circulación Nacional e Internacional – Áreas Artísticas Fondart, Circulación Internacional – Residencia, Residencia en Spatial Sound Institute – Budapest, Hungría, folio 559057.