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Victoria Keddie - Sensory Feedback I

from Echoes and Reflections by 9 Artists for Acoustic Atlas

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Ant Farm Arts Building, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, June 2022

Through the vehicle of sound, we can move freely from the confines of physical parameters. As materials start to shift, and elements drip, ooze, and fracture once-solid planes, we can model the sound -not as a series of linear movements, but as a polyphony of quantum superposition.
My most recent case study involves the Utopian architecture built by the collective, Ant Farm at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA (c.1971). The building, originally a media laboratory for the college,
has just recently been designated with landmark status in an effort to preserve its now deteriorating structure. The group, Ant Farm Antioch Art Building Creative Preservation Initiative [AFAAB], has been working to preserve the structure and to build a virtual simulation to interact with the building, its history, and possible futures.

I approached AFAAB with the idea to sound the building as an encapsulation of presence. By listening to and recording the building, I was able to focus on a kind of macro/micro existence. Here, agency and presence overlap where a building’s facade within an academic forum, exists simultaneously with its derelict state, inhabited by birds and stalactites, emerging organic matter, and material decay. This composition meshes microphone-based recordings performed within the building's four stories from June 7-12, 2022. Incorporating a series of microphones (cardioid, dpa, and omni directional microphones, as well as a geophone, and hydrophone), I recorded seismic vibrations, bacterial growth, birds (particularly the nesting starlings and red shouldered hawks), and inside HVAC ducts, elevator shafts, stairwells, brick piles, pigment powder, enclosed rooms, slide cupboards, glass, metal, and concrete. Also present were exterior sounds from wind, rain, and a tornado siren. Locked from public use, the building, (along with the complex make up of materials and elements inside its of it), was very much alive-moving, opening and closing, vibrating, humming. The composition is an entrance into a much longer, durational audible occupation.

-Victoria Keddie
July, 15, 2022

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from Echoes and Reflections, released December 19, 2022

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