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| The Second
Annual Report of the Royal Meterological Society
an installation for
rusted photographs mounted to copper foil and sound
2004
The Second Annual Report of the Royal Meteorological
Society
was on display at Westspace for the Immersion exhibition
in Melbourne, Australia.
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Immersion is one in a series of events
curated by Melbourne based sound artist and academic Philip
Samartzis that focuses on the theory and practice of surround
sound and immersive environments. In 1999, the inaugural
Immersion used the cinematic space as a site of performance
to explore the potential of Dolby Digital surround sound
to render and modulate sophisticated sound fields. In
2001, Immersion focused on the concert hall and the ability
of a multiple speaker surround sound diffusion system
to comprehensively choreograph acoustic and architectural
space through live spatialisation. In 2004, Immersion
will comprise a group exhibition at West Space and will
be used to research the difficulties associated with sound
presentations in gallery spaces in order to develop concepts
and strategies that enable multiple artists using sound
to simultaneously exhibit without negatively affecting
one another. In order to investigate this objective, the
three adjoining galleries that comprise West Space will
each contain an installation in which sound plays a pivotal
role. A special multi-speaker matrix will be installed
throughout the gallery space to coordinate and distribute
the sound design of each installation, converting West
Space into one giant sound resonator.
In this way each sound design can be strategically placed
anywhere in the gallery space, and mixed to minimize polyglotic
incoherence. By its very nature, installation is a reconfiguration
of acoustic and architectural space that enables incongruent
relationships between sound and space to develop within
a discourse that modulates between a series of diegetic
and non-diegetic, intentional and random exchanges. It
is the influence of acoustic and architectural space upon
that which is expressed that is one of the most attractive
features of installation. Also, the manner in which audiences
navigate and interact with installation work is significantly
different to the way they engage with sound work in other
spheres of presentation in which elements such as form
and time are highly regulated. The reduction of navigational
intervention enables a total reconfiguration of the temporal
and spatial aspects of compositional practice that is
rarely found anywhere but the province of the art gallery.
Participating artists include Loren Chasse and Jim Haynes
from San Francisco, as well as Martine Corompt, Rosemary
Dean, Philip Samartzis and Jennifer Sochackyj.
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Philip Samartzis, 2004 |
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