{"id":16317,"date":"2025-07-02T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solrezza.net\/?page_id=16317"},"modified":"2025-11-12T09:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:37:55","slug":"module-0-threshold-entryway","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/solrezza.net\/en\/kit-audio-inmersivo\/module-0-threshold-entryway\/","title":{"rendered":"Module 0: Threshold-Entryway"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Module 0: Threshold \/ Entryway<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Perception at the Center: The Body as the Starting Point of Immersive Audio\n<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Zachary Lieberman – Ripple Study #4 – 2024<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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“The main challenge<\/strong> is to create work that touches people on an emotional<\/strong> level, rather than making them think about the technology or wonder how it was made.<\/em><\/p>

To make poems<\/strong>, not demos\u2014<\/em>
to create work that is brief but intense<\/strong>, rhythmic, and meaningful,<\/em>
instead of a demonstration that feels like technology for technology\u2019s sake.”<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Zach Lieberman<\/a> \u2013 Multimedia Artist<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Introduction.\n<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Before we talk about sound, we need to talk about space.<\/p>

Because sound
exists in relation,
exists within an environment,
exists between bodies.<\/p>

Without space, there is no resonance.
Without resonance, there is no perception.
And without perception, there is no experience.<\/p>

Space is not an empty vessel to be filled.
It is an active condition:
it defines what is heard, how it is heard,
and above all, from where it is heard.<\/p>

To work with sound is to intervene in the architecture of listening.
It is to shape time through movement.
It is to build relationships between presence and absence.<\/p>

And space is the field of action.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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As early as 1906, mathematician and theoretical physicist Henri Poincar\u00e9<\/strong><\/a> challenged the understanding of space, emphasizing the impossibility of imagining an empty space.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cIt is impossible to imagine empty space; all our efforts to picture a pure space\u2014one from which the shifting images of material objects are excluded\u2014can only result in a representation where vividly colored surfaces are replaced by faintly colored lines, and we cannot carry this to the end without everything disappearing and ending in nothingness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In other words, a space exists because we have references\u2014because we can say that this room has four walls and a ceiling, or that it borders the house next door.<\/p>

Poincar\u00e9 offers a reflection on the relationship between space and movement:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cI am at a specific point in Paris, in the Place du Panth\u00e9on, and I say: \u2018I\u2019ll return here tomorrow.\u2019 If someone asks me, \u2018Do you mean to return to the same place in space?\u2019 I\u2019ll be tempted to answer \u2018Yes,\u2019 but I would be wrong.<\/em><\/p>

The reason for this error lies in the fact that, by tomorrow, the Earth will have traveled a considerable distance, carrying the Place du Panth\u00e9on more than 2 million kilometers. If I tried to be more precise in my description, it wouldn\u2019t help much, because the Earth moves in its orbit around the Sun, and the Sun itself moves in relation to the Milky Way. All this movement happens on a scale we\u2019re unable to perceive, so we completely ignore how far the Place du Panth\u00e9on really moves in a single day.<\/em><\/p>

In short, what I meant to say was: \u2018Tomorrow I\u2019ll see the dome and the pediment of the Panth\u00e9on again,\u2019 and if the Panth\u00e9on didn\u2019t exist, my sentence would lose its meaning\u2014and space, as we understand it, would vanish.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What Poincar\u00e9 tells us is that space is not a fixed or absolute entity. Rather, it is a dynamic, relative construction shaped by our perception and interaction with the world, where the reference points we recognize play a fundamental role in how we experience it.<\/p>

Usually, in my in-person workshops, this is one of the most revealing moments. I invite participants to do a simple exercise that opens up very deep questions about their perception of space.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Exercise: The Shapes of Space\n<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Objective:<\/strong> Reflect on immediate spatial perception.<\/p>

Duration:<\/strong> 2 minutes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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