arc (attract/repel /connect)

In the organizer's words:

arc (attract/repel /connect)

arc creates a complex, immersive and interactive musical experience in which questions of individual and collective perception can be explored. arc enables individual contemplation and musical listening as well as communication and playful exploration of the soundscapes. The space becomes a score and the audience creates its own composition.

The work is based on very precise position tracking of the audience, which uses wireless headphones to walk through a room with walls of projected light. The sounds perceived through the headphones change depending on their position in the room and in relation to the rest of the audience. The composition therefore unfolds primarily spatially and changes radically as you walk through the walls of light. By exploring the space, moments of collective musical perception arise within the individually experienced sound worlds, which are, however, repeatedly unsettled by the composition. Together with a combination of real and virtual sounds, this creates an interesting dialog between individual and collective perception.

arc is a new iteration of the work Diaphanous Sounds, which he developed for and performed at the Venice Biennale in 2022. Watch the teaser video here: https://hauptmeier-recker.de/diaphanous-sound/