GHOST LINE X - 01
Rosewood Park
On November 19th, 2022, fifteen large speakers were arranged linearly across 420ft underneath the boggy creek overpass in Rosewood park.
Composers from across the globe were commissioned to create sound compositions designed to activate the scale and spatial qualities of this sound system. Each of them created compositions uniquely engaged with the theme of transportation technology and the vector quality of the sounds they produce.
Spatial audio, sometimes referred to as surround sound, expands sound and music outside the bounds of a typical two-speaker stereo system. The Rolling Ryot arts collective has continually pushed this concept by creating unprecedented spatial sound systems. For Ghost Line X, the team is exploring the idea of a massively wide 15-channel sound system that explores the creative potential of sound in bi-directional, linear motion we call vector sound.
FEATURING COMPOSITIONS BY:
Sebastian DeWay (Montreal, Canada)
Simon Hutchinson (New Haven, CT)
Joaquin Jimenez-Sauma (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Zeynep Özcan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Brian Wenner (Brooklyn, NY)
Lyman Hardy (Austin, TX)
These composers have created works inspired by not only the past and present of transportation but imagining the sonic future of our transportation landscape. Ghost Line X is an installation that challenges our current concepts of transportation by addressing the history and future of its various technologies and by engaging the audience to study its complex sonic characters and its motion through space.
