CATHEDRAL

Sound & Music,
technical particulars

Elements of anticipation

THE MAP

1874.
1928.
1988.
1998.

ELEMENTS OF ANTICIPATION

1. The Mojave indians have a costum of prolonging a conversation long after the conversant has bid farewell and gone, and vice versa.

2. Holographic action - forms of spatial theatralisation.

3. Entropy - the omni-oneness of the world.

4. Known space transformed into the unknown according to the principle of simulation - state of space.

5. Space in movement - landscape of history and sensibility.

6. Imitation of reproduction without the original.

 SOUND AND MUSIC,
TECHNICAL PARTICULARS

Information on the situation and movement through the exhibition space is provided by the MIDI communications channel.

The music computer performs several music routines on the basis of the provided information that produce an infinite number of combinations in duration and moment of realisation.

Electric impulses derived from the bio-current of the performers organism set the first tone generator into motion. The second tone generator is not provided automatically, rather it is added by the music performer who, hidden from the eyes of the visitors, intervens intentionally in the acoustic image.

Unidirectional microphones are used to capture the passage of visitors through particular sections of the exhibition space.

The preceding four elements are mixed into sound groups that are processed using three computers for simulating various room acoustics and are reproduced through independent sound reinforcement systems.

The silence threshold is set by music from a prepared tape (Generalbass).