Space Junkyard

This piece was written for the 3-dimensional 43-speaker system. The instruments used in the piece are built during the Transformera! project. The piece is performed by one person (me), and most of the material is improvised, but the timeline of the piece is programmed beforehand in Ableton Live. Ableton controls the spatialization of the different sounds (fixed or moving), the dynamics and the looping. One example of the spatialization is that I have an instrument which is a bicycle wheel attached to a resonance-box (giant humus-canister). When the wheel spins, the sound also spins around in the speaker system. The solo instrument in the climax-part of the piece is a bowed instrument build from a shoe stand, a kitchen drawer and a guitar-string attached to a lever that regulates pitch