MANIFOLDS
Manifolds is a multichannel installation featuring synchronized instrumental gestures with a dark cinematic atmosphere. Each channel is streamed to the audience's cellphones over the internet, a telephone connection is sufficient. A laptop in the space receives the main channel containing the lower frequencies, while the higher voices are solely distributed to the audience's cellphones. Visitors just log in on a browser using a QR code, and by walking around in the space they become a moving loudspeaker orchestra.
It is part of the Radio Panspermia Project, that presents multichannel works over the internet, streamed to the audience’s smartphones, tablets and other devices. The Panspermia Hypothesis is a fitting metaphor for this project, as it proposes that life on earth may have come from bacteria distributed through interstellar space.
More information about Radio Panspermia with links to several other works here: radiopanspermia.space. Direct link: https://radiopanspermia.space/manifolds/
Selected Presentations
MANIFOLDS AT CYFEST 13, RUSSIA, ST. PETERSBURG NOVEMBER 2021
Stieglitz Hall, State Academy of Art and Design, St. Petersburg
CYFEST photos: Anton Khlabov
MANIFOLDS AT NYU OCTOBER 2021
Manifolds was performed at New York University’s Interactive Arts Performance Series with 50 participants.
Premiere: MANIFOLDS AT WHITEBOX JULY 2021
Manifolds is a multichannel installation featuring synchronized instrumental gestures with a dark cinematic atmosphere. Each channel is streamed to the audience's cellphones over the internet, using BBC's Audio Orchestrator software. A laptop in the space receives the main channel containing the lower frequencies, while the higher voices are distributed to the audience's cellphones. At WhiteBox in July 2021, Hilliard Greene (bass) and Hans Tammen (blippoo box) interacted with the sounds coming from the audience's cellphones. The sound on this video is a stereo downmix of the multichannel installation and performance. Thanks to Juan Puntes and Katherine Liberovskaya for curating the event, and Alejandro Penafiel for the audio and video recording.