Dig It! (II)

For the past few years, Aaron Holloway-Nahum has been exploring the artistic potential of 3D audio and is leading a two-week “3D Audio Art Lab” together with Brigitta Muntendorf and Lukas Nowok at this year‘s Darmstadt Summer Course. On his new piece for GBSR and 3D Audio the composer comments: “For millennia, humans have built upwards to escape hostile environments, treating the ground merely as a passive foundation. Inspired by Bjarne Mastenbroek’s (text) and Iwan Baan’s (photography) book Dig It! Building Bound to the Ground, this new piece returns earthword via six interconnected architectural practices that do the opposite: Bury, Embed, Absorb, Spiral, Carve, and Mimic. Integrating live music, spatialised electronics, and video projections from performer interviews, the piece blends spoken word, heavy electronic loops, and spatialised convolution reverbs that house and rehouse the performers and audience in a variety of spaces the piece explores of our fundamental connections to the earth – and to each other.”