Matrix for Glaciers

“Matrix For Glaciers” is created using two chaotic oscillators. These are played within a performance space in order to activate the room modes. Various psychoacoustic affects are created, most evident when the listener moves position within the room. There are hence two important movements at play: the movement of the listener and the movement of the sound waves themselves.

Ok is a shield volcano in Iceland, northeast of Reykjavík, height 1198m. Okjökull was a glacier that covered this mountain, until it was declared dead by Oddur Sigurðsson in 2014. While there is still water on the site, this is what’s called “dead ice.” Like sound, like life itself, a glacier dies when it stops moving.

Matrix

The elements which make up an interconnecting network.

A supporting or enclosing structure.

A place or medium in which something originates and develops

The environment in which a particular activity or process begins.

The womb.

Performance

“Matrix For Glaciers” will be diffused at the Beyond Listening International Symposium on Sonic Ecologies, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, 22-25 November 2023.