Gerriet K. Sharma: Sculptural Aspects in Loudspeaker Music

The lecture attempts to classify electroacoustic space-sound phenomena [plastic sound objects], regardless to their technical descriptions and metaphorical attributions, as »classical« sculptural body-space relations. Currently the loudspeaker-based sound projection techniques used are of interest to the automotive industry, computer and mobile phone companies, the event industry and VR technology. These will be available in shortest time in various executions for each household. This availability raises the question of what perceptions we share in these medial spaces, and how we can still track down potentials for aesthetic experiences and make them usable for acoustic arts. Questioning the description of these radically different, media-specific space-sound phenomena as »sculptural« enables their treatment independent of marketing idealizations and cinematic sound sensations. It is about the development of an aesthetic practice that composes space by assuming space as a prerequisite for sound-plastic material and thus pursuing the goal of finding a poetic approach in contemporary media art in order to be able to include complex environments artistically.

The event was organized as part of the Interfaces Network, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

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Camera: Christina Zartmann, Xenia Leidig
Editing: Tim Wenz