"TONE FIELD HORIZON" was a performance-installation for the Wave Farm Art Park, as well as a simultaneous radio transmission mixed live from the various points that make up the field. The project uses the Art Park as a spatial instrument. Neumann installed five remote stations, each consisting of a loudspeaker and a microphone. He used his software instrument Room Tone Generator [RTG] to generate finely tuned tonalities that blended into the nearfield environment. During the culminating public program, on-site audiences experienced the tones in the environment (RTG within an ecosystem) expanding spatiality. Listening there had a tonal anchor for focusing attention as the visitors moved through the different acoustic arenas. As visitors walked around the Wave Farm Art Park they experienced the shifting acoustic horizon in relation to how close or far they were from the various RTG speakers. The microphones picked up the altered environment. For off-site radio audiences, all five feeds were mixed together and output for stereo broadcast over WGXC 90.7-FM and wavefarm.org/listen. This tele-audience experienced a very different acoustic horizon, an all-at-once conglomerate from the different locations. The release on BC is an edited and shortened version of the broadcast.

""TONE FIELD HORIZON" is at once a formal, compositional experiment, and a pedagogical model for engaging acoustic phenomena and creating space for understanding complexities through an ontological method; coming to understand ‘place’ through a multisensory framework grasped through thoughtful movement, deep listening, adapting and orienting to subtly changing conditions both internally and externally.” - Axel Bishop, White Hot Magazine, August 25, 2024

With this type of listening, where sound, listener and architecture are woven together, in service of the lived listening experience, the space is made felt. A felt space allows us to expand our listening, our mind, and our consciousness. And since otherwise often we're caught in front of all these flat screen surfaces (reading this description for example), Neumann views the practice of listening spatially as timely and important.

https://danielneumann.bandcamp.com/album/tone-field-horizon-1

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