Lucio CAPECE
“Factors of space inconstancy”

“Factors of Space Inconstancy” For soprano saxophone, two wireless speakers as pendulums in oscillation, cassette walkman, volume pedal.
Two wireless speakers are moving as pendulums in oscillation. They amplify a cassette walkman in recording function. The cassette recorder works in this way only as a microphone, producing a delicate feedback that I modify or play together with by producing similar tones with the soprano saxophone. I modify the cassette walkman´s response using a volume pedal, considering that changing the volume with the walkman volume controller changes the material characteristics of the feedback in an unwanted way. The wireless speakers receive the information with a few seconds delay, what creates an artificial reverberation.
According to the place where I situate the cassette walkman, and myself (playing the saxophone), this delay and the interaction with the feedback changes, in a subtle way, the idea of the shape of the room. The difference with the real resonance of the room becomes evident each time I stop the walkman´s function, using the volume pedal.
Note: The walkman´s cassette motor and tape produces a hiss, what gives an almost permanent subtle background white noise to this recording. Only absent when I stop the walkman function, via the volume pedal. I have played versions using the walkman without a cassette, reducing this hiss. But I have largely preferred the recording version including it.
“Eyes don’t see simultaneously” For analog synthesizers and equalizers in feedback.
This piece works with sound regarding the way we can perceive it as foreground or background. It´s structured as a come-and-go between ears and body listening.
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