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tamtam (sam auinger and hannes strobl) refer to their work with the sentence
"the sound environment is becoming the instrument, the instrument is
becoming the sound environment." their instrument is, for all intensive
purposes, not only a sounding object that we are well familiar with. it is
also the space itself where sound lives-the acoustic and psychoacoustic
fields that enable us to extend our accepted senses to hear the habitual and
the everyday as something extraordinary.
cage always discussed the space between the notes-the place that is
neither sound nor silence but in suspension and waiting. In their search for
a new sonic language-a language where sound no longer evolves on the
horizontal, left to right plane of musical history but from foreground to
background, outside to inside, sounding always on the threshold of
disappearance-tamtam are also creating a new language of listening: one
where the space between is filled with the listener's own experience.
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