Michael J. Schumacher - Living Room Pieces (2 month loan)

Black Hole is excited to distribute a radical and lucid alternative to the base function and philosophical position of audio in one's home life. This work does not take place at our listening space, but in your home and a complete system will be loaned to you for the 2-3 months at which point the edition will go to the next person who has booked the work. ** Living Room Pieces is a sound installation that explores listening in the home - its special modes and attributes - reinventing the living space as a place of engagement and discovery. You set it up and start it and occasionally, unexpectedly, it makes sounds, always in different ways. Its huge inventory of sounds and the unpredictability of their occurrence create a listening environment that transforms one’s relationship to physical, architectural, social and aural space. Sounds from the installation interact with a room’s ambience; their timing and placement reinforce a listener’s sense of being “in the moment” - aware, attentive, resilient. Living Room Pieces is a computer-generated, multichannel, long-form composition. Its structure is built on rules - for timing, for various types of signal processing, for spatialization - executed in “real time”, that create continuous change while maintaining the sense of a single, unifying, purposeful idea. On the one hand, every sounding moment is unique, never to occur again, on the other, the algorithms have a consistency that suggests, reassuringly, an underlying organizational intent. The composition’s form, in the broadest sense, is a seven day repeating cycle, instantiated each time the software is launched. In theory, this need only happen once, as the piece will run without interruption for as long as there’s power to the system.Black Hole は、家庭生活における音の基本的な機能と哲学的な位置づけに対する、根源的で明晰な代替案を配布できることを嬉しく思います。この作品は私たちの試聴空間ではなく、あなたの家で立ち上がります。一式のシステムを2〜3ヶ月お貸し出しし、期間の終わりにこのエディションは次に予約された方のもとへ渡ります。