This ground-breaking event connects artists at all stages of practice from Australia’s rich experimental audiovisual and sound community to present a unique suite of audiovisual art and pure audio surround sound compositions, pairing the physicality and drama of multichannel sound on ACMI’s state of the art screen and speaker array.
Starlings Spatial Sound Collective, in collaboration with SIAL Sound Studios and RMIT University, present an evening of experimental audio visual and pure sound works using the ACMI Cinema 2 surround speaker system. Each artist will present either a quadraphonic, 5.1 sound or audiovisual work featuring surround sound of up to 10 minutes.
Artists have been given carte blanche to create their vision of what the space beyond the screen means to their practice, resulting in a showcase of the diversity and talent present in the Australian sound art and experimental cinema community. The Space Beyond the Screen celebrates Australia’s
With the advent of surround sound, the cinema space is the perfect venue to explore 3-dimensional sound composition and the possibilities it affords in a directed listening environment with a state-of-the-art sound system. A place where theaudience sits in comfort, immersed and intrigued by the sonic world they inhabit. Surround Sound is now an essential part of the cinema experience. How often do we stop and consider the role of sound in space? Or consider sound’s world-building and creative potential and its relationship with space and screen? By presenting a mixture of pure sound and audiovisual works together, we draw attention to the sound world stretching beyond the limits of the screen to the sonic imaginarium.
This non-conventional approach to a cinema space allows the audience to experience the encompassing nature of surround sound, engulfing the cinemagoers’ ears and immersing their bodies, inviting them to consider a new way of listening in space and with screen.
Ever wondered what it would be like if Aphex Twin took over one of ACMI’s cinemas? Welcome to The Space Beyond the Screen, an immersive multi-sensory spectacle! After experiencing the world through the flattened dimensions of our devices for several locked-down years, this surround sound concert will plunge audiences into a universe of cinematic sound and vision, giving them the means of hearing, seeing and feeling in 3D like never before.
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