Trying out the Sonic Sphere.
since 2007 and was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2002. He is the author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York.In Hudson Yards, there is the Shed, and in the Shed is the McCourt. Dangling from the rafters of that hangarlike, bubble-wrapped event space until the end of July is a globular concert hall.
The concept for a ball-shaped listening pod comes from the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, a cosmically radical artist who sent musicians aloft in helicopters to play airborne string quartets. The Kugelauditorium, as he called it, presaged the ever-evolving, ever-expanding Sonic Sphere, which arrived in New York in its 11th iteration, 65 feet in diameter.
At the Shed, it has the slightly creepy quality of ritual with its regimented processions into and out of the sanctum and its hour of supine absorption. Maybe the fact that we spend our days staring through a small sheet of glass has urged us toward technology that simulates old-fashioned, physical, three-dimensional life. Reality comes packaged in 3-D, virtual, or mixed flavors or in the form of immersive installations that allow you to slip into a.
In the real world, we use our hearing to know where we are and what’s happening around us. The engine of an approaching truck, a snatch of conversation, a siren’s wail, footsteps on pavement during a lull in the urban hubbub — all these stimuli help the brain make sense of space, even the parts we cannot see. If you heard a sudden whoosh of surf coming from the direction of Ninth Avenue, the anomaly would set off an instant adrenaline rush.
The acoustic effect is striking, but I’m not sure how meaningfully it affects your perception of the music. Reich composed flat, hard planes of sound with marimbas and amplified voices filling in blank space like dense cross-hatching. Rhythmic precision matters more than depth of field. He’s not a purist about his intentions, though.
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