Liminality • Museum of Future Experiences (MoFE)

A saving grace during the early days of the pandemic was a commission to produce a multi-channel environment for a (then) yet-to-open space named the Museum of Future Experiences here in Brooklyn. I had been wrestling with a series of triple-perspective recordings of a (private) performance made in a gigantic (grain, presumably) silo in an industrial park in Fribourg, Switzerland adjacent to the Swiss Museum & Center for Electronic Music Instruments (hilariously, I used my time @ smem poorly; instead of rifling through their salacious collection of antique Synths, Organs, & Drum Machines, I mostly hung out in this acoustically-significant space recording Guitar & Computer Music, bouncing sounds upwards about 50 meters via Roland JC-120 laying on its back) and, after making several stereo mixdown attempts & sending it to a few different labels for (proper) release consideration, had a change of heart & went back to the drawing board & fashioned not one, but two ~20 minute pieces out of the material mapped out into 16 channels for playback on MoFE’s custom Ambisonic configuration of Jim “Jupiter Sound” Toth’s speakers.

Happy to say that the first piece (let’s call it “Silo 1”) is finally premiering in the form of an audio-only narrative work for which it acts as the score; it’s part of the “Liminality” show and tickets/showings are now live at MoFE’s brand-new space on Grand St. (between Berry & Bedford). The show also features compelling VR work by Petter Lindblad & Alexander Rönnberg, Carl Krause & Dominik Stockhausen, & Marc Zimmerman and is an hour-plus of State-of-the-Art Audio & Visual entertainment unlike anything you have experienced.

(PS. I still think the two “Silo” pieces would made for a nice LP/Record; here’s an excerpt of the as-yet-unused second piece) ::