Lobe Catalogue Series: otherspace by Jordan Juras + Perila
Thursday March 14th
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
From the expanse of Lobe’s 4DSOUND archive, Sevin Shabankareh and Hannah Acton bring you a monthly curated selection of spatial sound excursions. This iteration of Lobe’s Catalogue Series revisits a stage in the ongoing collaboration between immersive artist Jordan Juras, sound artist perila, and designer Kristen Stokes, towards a project called otherspace.
otherspace is a generative, audio-reactive sound experience that refigures the smartphone in the service of detaching from the habitual, exploring the subtle, and empowering sustainable relationships with externalities that influence our day-to-day. otherspace records your sound environment and re-presents interesting sounds as compositional elements within four atmospheric ‘spaces.’ Each space is generated in response to your surroundings, composed of spatial dimensions that are accessible with headphones. With each use, otherspace deepens its interpretations of your surroundings and their connection with each space.
During a research residency at Lobe Studio in May 2023, perila composed and refined the sound material of the app’s four spaces, and Juras prototyped the spatial audio dynamics that were eventually reimplemented within the app framework. As a culmination of the residency, they presented their research outcomes to a private audience via the 4DSOUND sound system. The piece they recorded at Lobe, and presented in dialog with field recordings captured throughout Vancouver during the residency period, is a composition that will feature in the otherspace app.
otherspace will be released in spring 2024 on Android and iOS devices. A compilation of field recordings documenting experiences of collaborating with otherspace in different cities around the world will be published in summer 2024.
Lobe is thrilled to present this stage in this project's development in anticipation of otherspace's worldwide release.
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otherspace is supported by: Canada Arts Council, Lobe and MONOM Sound Studios, and Musikfonds e.V.