169 speakers bathe listeners in sounds that move past, over and under them. The composer who suspected space capable of revealing a new musical vocabulary found his pursuit blocked by the inadequacy of audio technology and performance spaces. The theatre consists of a foyer, sound labyrinth and main performance space. Listeners sit in concentric circles and are enveloped by speakers in sloping walls, floating floor and a suspended ceiling. Compositions are performed live at each program by a tape performer who directs the sounds through a customdesigned console to any com bination of 169 speakers.
Sounds touch deeper levels of our inner life, layers that lie just beneath the visual world.
Audiences should feel sound as it bumps up against them, caresses, travels through, covers and enfolds them. I ask listeners to see with their ears and feel with their bodies sounds as images, dreams and memories. As people walk into a work, they become part of its realization. Special performances for college and professional groups are held by arrangement.