SHADOWS ARE ONLY TWO-DIMENSIONAL

audiovisual composition

One of my favourite working methods is to start with a title or a sentence that I like and see where I end up with it. This also applied to SHADOWS ARE ONLY TWO-DIMENSIONAL. I was curious to see what can be seen as shadows in a sonic context and started reading about topics such as acoustic shadows, their scientific explanation, and what in Dutch is called bijgeluiden (which translates quite unfortunately as noise). I found out that the phenomenon of acoustic shadows had implications in the U.S. Civil War and influenced the outcome of some battles, such as the one called Seven Pines, and how buildings and other big objects can work as a kind of low-pass filter for ears located further away. These readings became the basis for this composition.