AN EGREGORE OF THE POSTHUMANIST CONFERENCE, AS CONJURED FOR THE FESTIVAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

presented at ST ANDREWS FESTIVAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

To summon and conjure the Egregore, a sonic event that is diffuse, into an ongoing, mystical sensation.

 One three-hour audio recording of the final day of a conference on posthumanism  stretched into the time elapsed between this moment of hearing (Festival of interdisciplinary Research), and the recordings capture. Three hours becomes 434hrs of voices, spoken words, breaths and every resonant frequency of the space itself.

A sonic system

An assemblage

A machine

A zone

In the center there are 6 independent speakers, each connected to a DAW. The create a 6 point, 360 sonified zone. Through each speaker, 6 separate pieces of audio play. 6 layers of stretched sound. 6 for the number of participants in the conference. Each layer is able to be moved throughout and around each of the speakers. Some are sutomated with LFO’S, others moved spatially by myself. They overlap, pulse, saunter, and slink across the Spatialised, sonic space.

In the center on the sonic assembalge, there is an omni-directional microphone, that is recording both the stretched layers as they sound out into the space, enmesh with the vibrations and frequencies of the space, as they move through everybody present, and every new word spoken, every conversation triggered by the sound, both the sound of the past sonic event folded and enmeshed with the current event. They dissolve into each other, feeding the egregore.