Sunday, January 16, 2011
Town Hall acoustics are just one of the 'instruments' used by the Deep Listening Band
Seattle Times: "They've done it in a cistern at Port Townsend — so there's no reason they can't do it in Town Hall. 'They' are the Deep Listening Band. And 'it' is the creation of digitally processed, 3-D sonic landscapes that have to be experienced to be believed. DLB has been in residence at Town Hall for the past week, tinkering with the interface between their instruments (trombones, piano, 'virtual accordion' and an assortment of noise-making doodads), their Expanded Instrument System (described by them as 'an evolving electronic sound-processing environment') and the acoustics of Town Hall's Great Hall.
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This article left me with more questions about how precisely DLB is using the acoustics of the hall for its performances; I looked at the websites for the group and for the hall, and didn't see anything further. I understand that they're using a Max/MSP patch as a virtual instrument where they do different sorts of reverb modeling, and that any venue's acoustics play a role in how performances are experienced, but I don't see the significance of the hall in this article - it doesn't talk about the hall's particular reverb, and the hall does not have anything in the way of electroacoustic architecture or technology that lends itself to this performance.
If I understand it correctly, based off the article and their website, they take audiences on a musical journey. The show is for your hearing, and to let the sounds spark your imagination. They are described as some what meditative.
The venue's provide an new experience as they tune their setup specifically for that room to provide a 3D landscape for your mind. Kinda neat actually. I go to their show, if anything just to check it out.
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