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Installation for ten speakers and more
July 2019, Hochschule fur Musik-Mainz, Germany
How many factors can alternate our perception of something?
How wide does language set the frame on our perception?
Could we induce visual perception via aural input?
In this piece, the artist is placing the participants in a space where they will be facing all the questions above. It is a game of perception through induction of aural data into visual via language.
Since the end of 2018, the artist started gathering material by interviewing a broad range of subjects on describing colors: what they see when facing a particular color, how they feel about it, and more importantly what they hear when thinking about that color. The challenge though, is to describe and answer all the question without naming the color.
In the mix of this ever-growing archive are Blind people (from birth or blinded by an accident), color blind people, people with sight disorder along with people with regular sight skills; People from many different ethnic backgrounds, different ages with many different professions and life experiences.
Audience is invited to take a small light source by the entrance and enter the darkroom where the 10 loudspeakers, hanging on the walls shape a sonic hallway. A 10-channel composition of all the recorded descriptions, engages the audience’s perception. The artist somehow composed the piece based on the mixture of the colors rather than just sounds.
The composition in German was commission by hr2 in 2020 under the title ‘Rangowarang’ which in Farsi means color in color; one says that when something is intensively colorful.
The composition was also placed in a hearing station at Soundseeig festival in Muenster in 2021. This time only the female voices and both in German and English.