Harvestworks

Cathedral-64

Emmett Palaima

Cathedral-64 is an immersive audio installation and instrument exploring the use of a very large number of spatialized sound sources. 64 individually controlled speakers driven by a custom electronic audio system are mounted to the walls and ceiling of the space, surrounding the listener in 3-dimensional sound. The piece explores the musical and psychoacoustic possibilities of this instrument, with an emphasis on continued compositional experimentation throughout the duration of the exhibition.

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Cathedral 64 2
Cathedral 64

About the artist(s)

Emmett Palaima

Emmett Palaima is an artist working with electronics and esoteric processes of sound creation. His work is conceptually rooted in the idea that technology and magic are one and the same, and that electricity is a manifestation of the divine or elemental forces underlying physical reality. He creates instruments which explore the experience of sound as an embodied, physical process and the sculptural beauty of the systems used in sound creation.