TWO PLACES
17th of January - 1st of March 2008
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SHRDLU: Barbara Freeman and Paul Wilson
until you have made the work you can’t know what it is: but you can say where you started
we have made several visual/sound installations before but these new pieces will involve the transparent the translucent the invisIble airy whispery sounds that are derived from rich noise-based material filtered and manipulated in realtime as people move within the space the architecture and space define the project originating both without and within the one passing through the other water wind stone steel rain echo patters patterns
the pool the steel above the water the light and the wind splices cuts and pastes itself into itself
as people move around the space their presence and movement effect not only the intensity of the soundworld but also the spectral content, richness and colour of the musical objects unfolding a new beginning in light how it passes through and comes to rest on lines and forms the light penetrates and embodies time as it passes over and through edges and profiles so the frame contains the frameless the reflection the refraction and the play of primary forms and angles the solid and the spectral a dialogue of geometric objects
not so much two locations but several simultaneously so that the world of each interpenetrates the other creating new visual/sound objects that are always changing and are never seen or heard in quite the same way again as their context depends on the surroundings which are resplendent upon who is in a particular space at a particular time and how they refract from one space into another space
the ethics of collaboration begin and end with trust
SHRDLU is a program for understanding natural language written by Terry Winograd in 1968-70 in the form of a dialogue about a world of geometric objects.
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