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Hljóðvitar
Hljóðvitar was performed and recorded live in the Cubus at KULTUM Graz on June 24th 2026. The Space You enter a space filled with sound. Four loudspeakers, each with four membranes, are arranged in a square, radiating to the four cardinal directions. At the center, a microphone with four membranes receives the sound. This regular arrangement is part of an instrument inscribed into the space, and the room varies it: sounds sent to the walls return differently, while open windows and the door form acoustic holes that swallow them. Sitting at one wall, I too swallow some sound with my body...
Credits
Hljóðvitar was composed, performed, recorded, and rendered binaurally by the author. The 16 speaker channels were convolved with binaural room impulse responses measured with a Neumann KU100 dummy head at the performance venue. The speakers used for the performance-installation are called Voxels and were designed and produced by Jakob Gille and Alexander Mülleder. The piece grew out of first experiments with these brand-new speakers, whose possibilities were so compelling that they called for a new work to explore them. Thank you to curator Benedikt Alphart for kindly scheduling the show on very short notice: the deadline did its part, giving the piece the pressure it needed to materialise.
- ElectroacousticElectronic
- 2026
- Binaural
