FRAME OF REFERENCE

 
The sound wave and its absorptions, reflections, refractions and shadows produces a sonic image of the listener's surroundings.

Consider three Scenarios-
Scenario 1: You are passing through a forest in a vehicle. You have fleating sense(s) of all the beings you are passing through. The glass box that packs you in is one of many units.

Scenario 2: You are an insect in a forest. There is a path cutting through the forest. Every once in a while, and sometimes more often, a loud, fast moving object beaming light at night and can be heard from a distance, passes through. Each instance of this has a distinct beginning and end in the sound field. It cuts out everything at its peak.

Scenario 3: You are an insect on/in a vehicle on the road and your kin are in the forest - sounding. You can hear their collective din but none of them can be heard distinctly. You make a call. But in the time that they hear you, you will be gone.

We hear not just the sound but also the room, the resonant frequency of the room, the time it takes for sound to be absorbed, it's echo and reverb, distances and disturbances - connecting the physical space to the psychoacoustic experience of the room.

Frame of Reference consists of a speaker, pendulum and apparatus, a composition and two images. The two images are studies of sound waves - one of the room where the work was installed and one of the woods and a crustatean.