Dust has been assembled for a concert at the ZKM in Karlsruhe. Its premiere was on June 24 2011 at the ZKM Media Theater.
Duration: about 45 minutes
Duration: about 45 minutes
Channels: one ring of eight channels around the audience, two subwoofers in the front, six speakers above the audience.
Dust is a granular synthesis piece exploring very slow movements of seemingly static but very alive and dense textures.
Source materials used for Dust are mainly field recordings; splashing waves captured in Australia on a beach with lots of pebbles, a massive storm, steam from my coffee machine, crackles of the lead out groove of an old record, hum and electrical discharges from a big transformer...
The source sounds were transformed, layered, filtered and shredded into myriads of microscopic sonic grains. The granular synthesis process rearranges them to form a large number of endless streams of highly dense textures. During the concert, these textures are mixed and filtered to form a slow dramatic development over time. Each of the multiple speakers around and above the audience is fed with a unique stream of textures, and as a result a deep spatiality is achieved.
The stochastic and unstable sonic world of the grains is contrasted with sections composed of pure sinewaves, the most static and artificial sonic experience possible.