Logos for seven liberal instruments - A site specific ambisonic installation based on the ratios and proportions of the naive elevation of Chartres Cathedral, France
The SoundDome is an acousmatic instrument comprising an array of 25-30 speakers within an 8-metre near -anechoic geodesic chamber designed for composed works of sonic art. The competition was open to all composers/sonic artists living and working in New Zealand and to all sonic arts genres including but not limited to stereo and multichannel acousmatic music, live sonic arts, generative music, sonic arts in the field, visual music, interactive installation and innovative forms of popular music.
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The composition is designed for two discrete situations: 1) to be played by seven musicians positioned equidistantly around a circle delineated by a septagram or 2) to be played as a multi channel acousmatic piece using the speaker array within the SoundDome as described above re-creating a similar configuration to option 1). The septagram is conceptually, a geometric distillation of the gothic Cathedral. In order to invoke the spirit of the cathedral, the musicians (or speaker array) would perform (playback) positioned on the seven points, the seven intervals of the naive elevation.
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The surround sound and stereo versions were released on DVD and also are available online at RATTLE Records as part of the SoundDome series https://rattle.co.nz/
​https://www.sounddome.org/