Published 10-04-2025
Copyright (c) 2025 Francis Devine and Lewis Wolstanholme
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Abstract
Soundcloud link: josef
Supplementary links to performances of josef: Iklectik 23/04/2022 / EIS 16/06/2022
josef is an audiovisual performance piece composed specifically for an immersive surround sound environment. Throughout every stage of its creative development, spatiality was one of the principal materials used to shape this work's overall form and structure. As a result, spatiality came to encompass this work's sonic and visual composition, performative enaction, and its eventual studio production and release. Thematically, this work was largely influenced by Josef Albers' Interaction of Color, which contains a collection of ideas demonstrating that spatiality can be conveyed using colour. Sonically, we portrayed this visual notion using additive synthesis coupled with a chromatic spatialisation technique. In keeping with Albers' ideas surrounding colour interaction - his emphasis upon the way in which one's perceptive capabilities alter their experience of an artwork - this work utilises spatiality as a means of curating diverse and nuanced experiences, sympathetic to their environments and unique to their spectators.