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Created in collaboration with Josiah Boothby.PREMIERE September 20, 2005
48th International Contemporary Music Festival "Warsaw Autumn",
The Highest Voltage Hall, Warsaw, Poland
Josiah Boothby, horn (tape)
Henryk Kaliński, horn (live)
Sound Chronicles of Warsaw Autumn 2005, CD No 2. |
Minotaur is a journey through a mythical maze of sonic spaces, following a film-like scenario. It is also a part of my long-term project, exploring musical instruments in their original, in a sense natural environments, understood as both historical and artistic objects.
Minotaur creates a conversation between the multi-channel pre-recorded sound, the space and the soloist. During the performance it is critical that the soloist try to explore the entire concert hall or performance space. The soloist should walk through the space and at times become invisible, haunting the perimeter of the audience and occasionally leaving the space enclosed by the speaker array. Ideally, the live horn should remain unprocessed in order to preserve a directionality and strength of a live sound source.
The piece has been realized through a series of recording sessions in collaboration with a horn player Josiah Boothby, in a way similar to film production. The major part of the sound material was recorded in ambisonic technology (B-format), with Soundfield st-250 and Mark-V microphones. A sequence of soundscapes has been created, processed and mastered in Super-Collider-3 - audio synthesis programming language.
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