Built from sounds recorded using an 8-channel, real-time spatialisation system called systemic, controlled via a physics-based visual system built in processing, this is originally an 8-channel work which won the world prize in the Electracoustic Competition Musica Viva 2011.
Axial is intended for projection on a dome-shaped space, such as a planetarium, and is one of a series of compositions investigating expanded audiovisual formats. The compositional structure is continually condensing – essentially composed of five iterations of the same material, each subsequent iteration is heard 1.5 times faster…