MTRAK (מטרקא) (2018) for Fixed Media

Three binaural recordings to be listened to with headphones that reproduce a quadraphonic version of MTRAK from three different listening positions:

MTRAK promotes different understandings of the work depending on the listener’s position. The three recordings created with the spatial model programmed in SuperCollider which render the piece MTRAK from three different listening positions. In these simulations, it is apparent how the different appearances of a material in continuous transformations uncover the piece’s intrinsic openness and how the use of space contributes to enhance a multiplicity of understandings of the musical work. If, for example, we compare the first 40 seconds of the beginning of MTRAK from the three listening positions, we will clearly hear the different understandings that spatialization can provide. From the first listening position – the listener is in the front in the center – the appearance of a third voice is perceived as a rhythmical shifting of the first two. However, the second position – the listener is close to the left back corner – shows the third layer clearly as independent and in rhythmic contrast with the other two. From the third position this layer is understood as a stronger and different rhythmic shift than from the first listening position, while a high pitch results from the sum of the low frequencies.

Example of the GUI of the Spatialization model software in SuperCollider

Documentation of the spatialization model software in SuperCollider

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