This event is part of the Friends of Reethaus annual pass.
Reethaus presents a rare opportunity to witness the technology underlying spatial sound composition in action, with William Russell of MONOM transforming the listening room into a live sonic laboratory. A special edition during Gallery Weekend Berlin, this reconstruction of an open studio gives visitors the chance to look over the shoulder of one of spatial audio’s pioneers as he bends sound.
The 4DSOUND software used both at the Funkhouse studio and at Reethaus allows the movements of environmental forces such as wind, rain, cascading water or birdsong to be digitally modelled. These patterns, what Russell terms “spatial entities,” become receptacles into which music can be played to engineer its movement through the omnidirectional sound space afforded by the 16-channel design of Reethaus. The 4DSOUND interface will be observable on screen throughout Russell’s performances and their replays over Gallery Weekend.
At his workstation — arrayed with a piano, shakers, chimes, drums, singing bowls, and found objects as well as his digital studio — Russell will perform spatial improvisations, duets between the physical instruments and the invisible digital entities that model the dynamic movements of natural phenomena. By extemporizing on two levels simultaneously, playing music and conducting the spatial entities through faders, Russell will offer visitors an insight into the process of spatial composition.
Join us this May for this illustration of spatial sound techniques.