DOUBLE FEATURE
Lost Space // Orchid Mantis
William Russell // Stefan Maier
This piece is no longer available as a private booking.
Conceived by MONOM’s Creative Director and Sound Artist William Russell, “Lost Space: Rainforest Variations” is part of a series of Sonic Films that recreate hyper realistic audio maps of natural environments that no longer exist. The living beings you encounter in these environments have been lost with them.
Created in collaboration with Michelle Mackenzi - Orchid Mantis is a sonic study of a speculative, post-human habitat described in an essay by Benjamin Bratton. Composer and educator Stefan Maier enlists the novel possibilities afforded by 4DSOUND and the tactile specificites of infrasonics through Lobe’s vibrational transducers to explore human listening as a non-linear process, the physiological limits of the human ear, perceptual paradoxes, and impossible spatial geometries.
Presented together, these rich and highly affective environments offer listeners an opportunity to consider the differences and consistencies between how we open to what has been and what could be. This program will run from June to September, 2021.
**ATTENTION** This piece utilizes otoacoustic emissions, which while not harmful, can be uncomfortable for some listeners.