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At first it’s just an empty space... Ari Benjamin Meyers’ Musikinstallationen

Author(s): Landbrecht, Christina

Abstract

Based on two music installations by composer and conductor Ari Benjamin Meyers, an artist, who, since 2012, has situated his compositions in an art context, this text discusses an innovative approach towards a new understanding of immersion in music. Meyers’ compositions as well as performances work with a concept that integrates the listener socially and spatially into the music. In doing so, the listener is encouraged to perceive music in a both aesthetic as well as reflected way. Making use of concepts such as presence, the soundscape and repetition immersion is not understood or used in a modernistic sense, that is to say as an abstract experience in sealed off spaces. Meyers rather propagates a naturalized understanding of music in which the presence of the performer is just as important as that of the listener and the space.

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Klänge, Musik & Soundscapes
Institut für immersive Medien (ifim) (2014)
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Landbrecht, Christina: At first it’s just an empty space... Ari Benjamin Meyers’ Musikinstallationen. In: : . Marburg: Schüren 2014, S. 57-67. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18179.
@INCOLLECTION{Landbrecht2014,
 author = {Landbrecht, Christina},
 title = {At first it’s just an empty space... Ari Benjamin Meyers’ Musikinstallationen},
 year = 2014,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18179}",
 volume = 6,
 address = {Marburg},
 series = {Jahrbuch immersiver Medien},
 pages = {57--67},
 publisher = {Schüren},
}
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