Continuous Soundings
Acoustic Sculptures with continuous tone (1970s)
Listening to these pieces:
Most of these works were created to be heard in empty rooms that reflect echoes. Playing them in your living room will give you only an approximation of their spatial properties.
Most of these works were created to be heard in empty rooms that reflect echoes. Playing them in your living room will give you only an approximation of their spatial properties.
- Use speakers, preferably freestanding, rather than using headsets to listen to them.
- Play them with enough loudness to allow the sound to physicalize in the room, with enough power to show you their volume.
- Be an active listener; drift around the room and listen from different vantage points.
Fixed Frequency 1971
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Audio / 1.19 MB / 01:02 Minutes
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Preview Clip / 199 KB / 00:10 Seconds
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Standing Wave 1972
Audio 4.6 MB / 05:02 Minutes
Slow Walking Wave 1975
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Audio / 1.19 MB / 01:02 Minutes
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Preview Clip / 198.49 KB / 00:10 Seconds
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Concrete Two-Tone 1978
Concrete Two-Tone is the second two-tone piece, but done out of doors. This unrealistic object on the Netherlands landscape was destined to become a highway overpass. The combination of tones produced a sensitive space which responded to vehicular noise a mile away, drastically altering the ten-beat-per-second "rhythm" of its harmonic field.
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Audio / 1.19 MB / 01:02 Minutes
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Preview Clip / 197.49 KB / 00:10 Seconds
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