Extended! The subsonic artifacts of Sabisha Friedberg's Hoffe Axiom are installed in ISSUE's theater as a quadrophonic installation this Saturday from 12:00pm-5:00pm. Four subwoofers, as independent instruments, project a series of cyclical sonic traces or phantom sounds in patterns of low-end frequencies. The installation is a continuation of the concert work's exploration of sub, ELF, infrasonic allocation and resonance. The room becomes a cavity of a sparse but immersive spacialized and localized low frequencies.
Opening her 2013 residency, on April 11th Sabisha Friedberg presented Hinterkante, Resonanz (Hoffe Axiom), or Trailing Edge, Resonance (Hope Axiom), a new chamber piece for acoustic instruments, modified subwoofers, and voice. Friedberg focuses on the concept of an experiential threshold, with notations and an arrangement of frequencies that engage the most physical states of hearing. This new work draws on the extremes of perception in the lower end of the sonic spectrum: the opening of a psychoacoustic territory which deals exclusively with bass tones and their resonance.
Friedberg’s 2013 residency examines different approaches to listening, or aurality, specifically to sounds that exist at extremely subtle levels, are nearly imperceptible, and experienced bodily. The way one perceives sound both in the auricular and physiological sense, is the foundation for this triad of pieces. The second and third installments, forthcoming later this year, include an installation that defines the interior space of ISSUE’s historic theater through sonic interplay, and a durational work of 25 hours which posits the artist as an activator and catalytic agent of sound.
