Subliminal Throwback by Natasha Barrett

Subliminal Throwback is an outdoor, site specific 3D sound installation. Hidden qualities from the seemingly empty winter sound-scape are pulled to the fore and juxtaposed with the outdoor sound-scape of June, manoeuvring our 'listening' so we can 'hear'.

The installation format is an 8-channel, partially hidden ambisonics loudspeaker array, and a custom designed 'beam-forming' loudspeaker that directs sound to reflect off the surrounding surfaces.

This album documents the first time the project was setup in the outdoor amphitheatre between Slemdalsveien 11 and Gydas vei 6, Oslo.

Tracks include the original studio mix prior to outdoor deployment and two extracts from the on-site sound-field recorded from two different locations. The on-site recordings were made with a Soundfield SPS200 microphone and are here coded to binaural for 3D sound on headphones.

For an idea of the outdoor context, you can see a video at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7CBQQ_Ndb0

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