Virtual Audiovisual Environment by Matthew D. Gantt
Online
To make THE ROEDELIUS CELLS accessible during the pandemic, you can experience the installation online in form of a virtual audiovisual environment, created by Matthew D. Gantt. As you explore the virtual space, your position in relation to each circle will determine how you hear the work.
Audio Installation by Tim Story, Piano by Hans-Joachim Roedelius
This collaboration of Gantt and Story emphasizes the challenging of ideas of authorship, appropriation and composition, and blurs distinctions between composer and listener, slyly subverting assumptions.
(c) Matthew Gantt
Matthew D. Gantt is artist, composer and educator based between Queens, NYC and Troy, NY. His practice focuses on sound in virtual spaces, generative systems facilitated by idiosyncratic technology, and digital production presets as sonic readymades. Gantt releases music with Orange Milk and Oxtail Recordings, and has taught experimental composition at both institutional and DIY spaces, including NYC non-profit/public media studio Harvestworks, CUNY Brooklyn, Bard College, Sarah Lawrence, and a variety of community workshops aimed at creating equitable access to developing technologies. In Fall 2019, he joined the Electronic Arts PhD program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/EMPAC, researching spatial sound in virtual reality and strategies for using experimental arts practices as a frame to refigure possibilities for immersive media futures
(c) Hetty van Oijen
Hans-Joachim Roedelius has profoundly influenced generations of musicians in a career spanning more than a half-century and over 100 solo and collaborative recordings. From his groundbreaking duo Cluster with Dieter Moebius, to his genre-crossing solo works and collaborations with luminaries including Brian Eno, Roedelius is recognized as one of Europe’s most important sound pioneers. Equally at ease with the most abstract of electronics and the most evanescent of piano solos, Roedelius has exerted an indelible, global impact on ambient, electronic, experimental, and wholly undefinable genres of music.
(c) Ingo Pertramer
Grammy-nominated American composer Tim Story has been called "a master of electronic chamber music" (CD Review, USA), and a "true artist in the electronic medium" (Victory review, USA). Through three decades of influential recordings and live performances, Story’s unique blend of careful composition and innovative sound design has garnered a dedicated worldwide following.
This installation was organized by our colleagues at the Goethe-Institut Chicago!
