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Headphones: Sound Without Space

05 Leitner, Bernhard. WLB (2003)

Original Format: Audio CD. Kopfräume—Headscapes.  Ostfildern, Germany: Cantz Verlag, <HEADSCAPES are works specifically created for the interior of the head. They can only be experienced with earphones. The head is here conceived as hollow volume, as a globe-like receptacle for time-based acoustic-geometric spaces. Sensing, hearing space in motion within the resonant inner space of the head. Hearing, contemplating the interior, the inside –however unfathomable it may be.> #

Play 2:10 min, Charles Stankievech 18/4/2009

06 Mathieu, Stephan + Ekkehard Ehlers. BABY BLUE 1 (2001)

Original Format: Audio CD. Heroin. Staalplaat: Brombon Series #02. A Kleinnian bottle of sound with slight pitch shifts coinciding with minimal spatial manipulation. #

Play 2:03 min, Charles Stankievech 18/4/2009

07 Stankievech, Charles. MÖBIUS FIELDS (SOUNDWALK) (2006)

Original Format: Audio CD: “Interpreting the Soundscape” Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press), Vol. 16. Acoustic and electromagnetic recordings made for headphone listening with a particular topological twist in spatial perception.  A narrative audio walk in the city of Montreal, Canada that compares the acoustic environment of objects with their electromagnetic radiation. #

Play 6:06 min, Charles Stankievech 18/4/2009

08 Lucier, Alvin. SFERICS (1981) - excerpt

Original Format: Audio recording released on vinyl from Lovely Music, 1988. Also created as a sound installation in the desert at Siteworks Southwest, Artists of Earthwatch Project Sound installation and recordings of ionospheric disturbances, for large-loop antennas, tape recorder and playback system.  Also setup as an installation in the desert where people listened with headphones to battery powered receivers.  DXing the Kosmos #

Play 3:41 min, Charles Stankievech 18/4/2009

09 Ikeda, Ryoji. +/- (1996)

Original Format: Audio CD. +/- Touch Records. TO#30. <A high frequency sound is used that the listener becomes aware of only upon its disappearance.> Reboot.   Shifting from form to content, from space to voice. Ikeda’s title track comes from the album with the liner notes that claim: “the listener can experience a particular difference between speaker playback and headphone listening.”  Listening to this track on headphones, Ikeda focus on the second sound Johan Cage famously discovered when sitting in an anechoic chamber.  Continuum referenced the eternal sound of the heartbeat, while +/- taps into the high pitched buzz of the central nervous system. Does Ikeda’s high frequency disappear because it slides into the bodies CNS frequency, or is it simply on the threshold of hearing? #

Play 1:05 min, Charles Stankievech 18/4/2009