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Item CinematicAmbiX: Cinematic Sound in Virtual Reality(2020-11-25) Schwartz, Adam; Bernstein, Andrew; Art and TechnologyCinematicAmbiX is a three-movement piece of virtual reality art that is focused on sound for film. I sought to separate trailer sounds, foley, and ambience from their standard visual accompaniment. I chose virtual reality (VR) as a mode of exhibition for its ability to allow me to replace the two-dimensional plane of the cinema screen with the three-dimensional virtual gallery. VR granted me the use of the ambisonic audio format to create an interactive and immersive sonic environment. I was able to spotlight cinematic sound in a format that encouraged audience interaction while maintaining sound as the focus. This is contrary to what Christoph Cox calls, the “hegemony of the visual” through which sound is often overshadowed in visual media. In this writing, I explain how human hearing connects to a film’s soundtrack by investigating the evolution of cinema audio formats and the technologies that drive them.Item reciprocation(2020-01-20) Charney, Jason; Nohe, Timothy; Visual Arts; Imaging and Digital ArtsThe sculptural works in "reciprocation" repurpose loudspeakers, transforming them from "invisible" aural channels into evocative things to interrogate interpersonal relationships, (mis)communications, and the kinetic phenomenon of sound itself. While recorded audio is used to drive the speakers, the heard sound is an artifact of material activated by subsonic frequencies. As the phenomena of sound and hearing are dependent on reciprocal movement, so is our understanding and reflection of the meaning that sound carries. reciprocation consists of four works: "fate," in which two speakers, one positioned vertically above the other, are united by dozens of parallel red threads; "allegory," in which eight speakers thump against a wall and the restraints holding them up, causing lights hidden within their cones to cast changing shadows around the darkened space; "harmonic curtain," depicting the harmonic series through a network of connected chains; and "trine," a triangle of three freely hanging speakers linked by a mesh of fine chain.