Sounding two recurring dream cycle motifs. “Caves as psychic wombs” entwined with “a timeless lake” embedded amongst deep and wild high-mountain forests”.
Caves for exploring liminal ecologies, personal or collective ritual, and homing shelters. The latter could be a womb in which one finds peace or solace.
Atop high mountain forests, spotting the clearest, stillest and most timeless lake one can imagine, in the far distance. The lake calls on us. The confrontation of meeting the lake head on, perhaps even submerging oneself into that vast and unfathomable water, crosses one’s mind on the way.
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Air is about organs. Strings is about extending our idea of the piano. Wood is about letting trees speak. A liminal melting pot of alternate tunings, organ pre-recordings and organic materialities.
An omnidirectional and interactive sound-listening cocoon.

Sounding two recurring dream cycle motifs. “Caves as psychic wombs” entwined with “a timeless lake” embedded amongst deep and wild high-mountain forests”.
Caves for exploring liminal ecologies, personal or collective ritual, and homing shelters. The latter could be a womb in which one finds peace or solace.
Atop high mountain forests, spotting the clearest, stillest and most timeless lake one can imagine, in the far distance. The lake calls on us. The confrontation of meeting the lake head on, perhaps even submerging oneself into that vast and unfathomable water, crosses one’s mind on the way.
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Air is about organs. Strings is about extending our idea of the piano. Wood is about letting trees speak. A liminal melting pot of alternate tunings, organ pre-recordings and organic materialities.
An omnidirectional and interactive sound-listening cocoon.
The installation uses second-hand Canadian Pacific Coast red cedar wood taken from where I grew up. Also Scandinavian sitka spruce. It’s a celebration of the forest and its capacity for fostering mystery, beauty and spirituality.

Matt Choboter: extended piano, organ-pre-recordings, and multi-channel installation of Canadian red- cedar and Scandinavian sitka spruce resonators. Composed collages dialoguing with real-time improvisation....

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