Relativity is an electroacoustic outdoor performance featuring spatialized sound, lighting design, and audiovisual installations with metronomes.
The piece is written for five musicians: percussion and electronics, cello, euphonium, clarinet, and violin.
This movement explores the Theory of General Relativity and the deep interconnectivity of time and space.
In this outdoor performance, the musicians are positioned at significant distances from each other, creating unique experiences as the audience moves amongst them.
We live in a time where everything can be recorded and shared instantaneously. This performance intentionally presented the opposite in a one-off immersive experience.
The music is composed and presented in a format impossible to record.
As the audience explores the grounds, they encounter a distinct soundscape at each location, though all the musicians are playing the same score live. These experiential variations are enhanced by live transposition, transformation, and modulation techniques crafted by Yannick Paget.
An installation of 10 metronomes, all set with different rhythms and connected to the musicians is also displayed. In the center of the installation a speaker that symbolized a black hole broadcasted the main computer’s accumulation of all the raw sounds produced by the musicians.Through this experience, the audience is offered a deeper understanding of time, space, and relativity through sound.
