SoundSpots / Is She? (going to take you away from me)

ICMC2008 Belfast - Ireland

Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich - Switzerland

Unheard Festival, Amsterdam - The Netherlands

Shunt London Bridge, London - UK

New York City Electro Acoustic Music Festival, New York -USA

A typical example of contemporary music and soundart

is 'SoundSpots', a soundinstallation formed by 8

traditional speakers and 8 SoundSpots (parabola-

speakers) situated in a spatial environment. The

immersive soundexperience the listener faces is

unique and highly impressive and takes the listener

out on a journey through soundscapes which not just

surround him, they even intrude him.

Also from an aesthetic point of view SoundSpots  is an

installation you have to see. It has been developed

and designed by the Dutch composers Rob van Rijswijk

and Jeroen Strijbos in 2007. A SoundSpot looks like a

transparent illumination equipment, but auditory it

has the characteristic of beaming sound just within       

the radius of a square metre, seperate from the other

SoundSpots. Thereby producing local sound on the spot.

  

The listener must position himself  underneath one of the SoundSpots. On this spot he hears music  coming from the traditional speakers. These sounds mingle with the music coming from the SoundSpots, consequently resulting in a polyphonic texture of timbres. The listener can influence this polyphonic result by moving through the spatial environment or by positioning himself underneath one of the other SoundSpots.

SoundSpots is characterized by elements of spatialisation, musictechnology in combination with computercomposition and by elements of applicability in various area's of the arts.

Van Rijswijk & Strijbos wrote the electro acoustic composition for the installation SoundSpots “Is She? (going to take you away from me)” for concertpresentations at among others ICMC2008 Belfast & Shunt London Bridge.

Here you can download the graphic score for this spatial piece

SoundSpots tour:

* ICMC2008 - International Computer Music Conference

Belfast, Ireland

* Shunt London Bridge

London, Great-Brittain

* New York City Electracoustic Music Festival

New York, United States

* November Music - Festival for Contemporary Music

's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

* STRP Art & Technology

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

* Kunstraum Walcheturm

Zürich, Switzerland

* Cultural Manifestation City Tilburg

director: Mike Phillips, curator Tate Modern London

Tilburg, The Netherlands

* Huis a/d/ Werf, Diner in the Dark

Utrecht, The Netherlands

* Festival Boulevard

‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

* Lokaal01 - Festival for Modern Arts

Breda, The Netherlands & Anvers, Belgium

* Ruimte X

festival Speech of the City, Tilburg

                

* Theater Regentes

Den Haag, Netherlands