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SPATIAL 017 :: Irene Tanuwidjaja | Andrew Neumann

Sun, May 17 at 8:00 PM New York

Irene Tanuwidjaja
This piece constructs an immersive multichannel sound environment of a reimagined office building from a first-person perspective. It develops as a spatial experience in which the listener moves through shifting acoustic conditions shaped by systems of work, observation, and control. The composition treats space as an active and unstable field. What appears as a coherent spatial environment is in fact a system that responds to, absorbs, and reshapes human presence. Through this framing, the work reflects on contemporary conditions of labor and perception, where environments are increasingly mediated by invisible systems of measurement, feedback, and control. 

Andrew Neumann
“False Electronic Alert”
This piece, originally designed as a system for solo improvisation on a small Eurorack Synth with quad audio via a voltage controlled panning system has now morphed into a multi channel work, currently realized from a laptop. As an improvisor, my work relies on spontaneity, chance, correction, discretion. The jump from analog to digital opens up a new direction, especially for sound placement. Aging, both mine and some critical modules have also led to this new direction. The sonic sources are varied: everything from a Buchla Synth, Eurorack Modular, and acoustic instruments have been placed in the digital environment. The tactile pleasures of the analog system, for the moment are replaced with a series of faders and buttons. “You can always go back”…… perhaps I will, sure I will……
My work reflects issues concerning the uses of technology, language, and transmission of power in both its various corporeal and elusive modes. I am interested in technology and its use as a representational model. With this work he is attempting to develop a specific iconography that reflects upon the recent evolution of technology while at the same time pulling it out of context and questioning its main function as a reflection of the authoritative and corporate powers that it is most clearly aligned and supported by. By deconstructing these technologies, I am questioning the value of the objects, disregarding any protocol (which is at the heart of any system) and exploring the relationship between technology and the world it is meant to serve. Another main interest of mine, as a practitioner of avant-garde film methods and ideologies, has
involved the observation, manipulation, and dissection of the "cinematic apparatus"; the film camera and projector. In electronic media, the connection is not as cleanly defined or direct; although the camera and monitor/projector are the basic mediators of the image, a great deal of electronic manipulation can occur with ease and immediacy..My work is about developing a new schema by presenting and integrating a variety of contradictory set of signs, visual references, and textual notions in an attempt at hybridization that will hopefully provoke in viewers a new relationship to mechanistic visualization.

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