sc_tilop yt_tnedi (2023)
This piece employs redistributive and foregrounding strategies of processes and dual identity, aiming to engender divergences in the cognitive processes of detection/recognition and nondetection/non-recognition among audience members. The sonic materials index musical excerpts with varying degrees of familiarity to individual audience members, including a reversed excerpt from Brahms' Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, elements from the brutal dubstep genre, and the Beer Barrel Polka. Additional processes include loop truncation, lowering of keys, tempo acceleration, duration elongation, and change in dynamics. These techniques are implemented with the intention of creating temporal divergences in the detection of these changes among listeners, depending on their individual sensitivities to absolute pitch, loudness differentials, and other auditory parameters. The goal of this approach is to facilitate a heterogeneous listening experience, where audience members may achieve recognition or experience non-recognition at distinct temporal points, thereby engendering a diverse array of perceptual states within the collective audience.
Intersubjective relations among listeners can be foregrounded through the temporal linearity and the gradation of specificity in recognition of the processes unfolding in multifarious layers. As listeners detect specific elements at particular points within the temporally linear process, and subsequently perceive the linear progression of these elements, they may become aware of their prior non-detection. This realisation can extend to an awareness of potential variations in detection and nondetection states among fellow audience members. Similarly, when listeners perceive certain patterns without immediately identifying their specific identities, the subsequent encounter with more familiar patterns indicative of a particular musical genre may facilitate retrospective recognition of both patterns. This process of delayed recognition can motivate an understanding of the diverse temporal points at which fellow listeners might achieve or fail to achieve similar recognitions.