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Lost Space // Orchid Mantis

  • Lobe 713 East Hastings Street Vancouver, BC, V6A 1R3 Canada (map)

Two original spatial sound compositions by William Russell (of MONOM) and Stefan Maier in collaboration with Michelle Mackenzie.

Double Feature:

Lost Space: Rainforest Variations by Sound Artist William Russell

Conceived by MONOM’s Creative Director and Sound Artist William Russell, this piece 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.

Orchid Mantis by Sound Artist Stefan Maier in collaboration with Michelle Mackenzie

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.

**ATTENTION** This piece utilizes otoacoustic emissions, which while not harmful, can be uncomfortable for some listeners.

This is a special public presentation of this work. To book this piece as a Private Event, click here.

Earlier Event: August 11
Are You Moving?
Later Event: August 13
Touching Unseen Sound