Atonotoop, by Ezra Jacobs

Atonotoop

by Ezra Jacobs

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Atonotoop (40:26)
Atonotoop coda (12:23)
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	1.	Atonotoop I 12:04
	2.	Atonotoop II 09:21
	3.	Atonotoop III 04:33
	4.	Atonotoop IV 03:19
	5.	Atonotoop V 11:09
	6.	Atonotoop coda 12:23

about

Atonotoop is a music composition made by Ezra Jacobs, which was recorded at the wavefield synthesis loudspeaker-system in the Scheltema Complex in Leiden, The Netherlands. This specialized system consists of 192 loudspeakers and allows the user to place sounds with great precision on a two-dimensional plane between the speakers. For this composition, the loudspeaker-system was used to diffuse densely layered masses of sound which would otherwise lose definition and impact on a conventional loudspeaker-system. As a result, the spatial diffusion and the trajectories in which the sound-masses move within the soundfield become integral part of the musical structure. In this compositon, larger sound-masses form the framework; within, layers of smaller tone-events & details have space to develop and provide textural interest.

The title of the piece refers to this mechanism and the central role that sound-spatialization plays: tonotopy describes how a sound's spatial information is picked up by the inner human ear and passed on to the brain - this process occurs in the spiral-shaped cochlea, within which different areas of nerve-tissue correspond to different sound "positions". As a result, the literal "placement" of sound on these areas in the cochlea dictates how we perceive spatial information such as distance, height and angle.