Watch the full video here (4 minutes; listen with stereo):
emergens chordis is an original piece for glass bottles, composed and performed by Masa Gibson. The title was inspired by the title of a theoretical physics paper, Emergent Strings from Infinite Distance Limits (2022, Lee, SJ., Lerche, W. & Weigand, T.), in which strings refers to the one-dimensional building blocks of the universe postulated in string theory.
The video depicts a bottle player who temporarily gains control over spacetime and plays alongside alternate versions of themself to weave together a polyphonous, interdimensional interlude.
As with other entries in the Bottlemusick series, everything on this track was performed on glass bottles. While some of the track may sound electronic, all the sounds recorded were acoustic, and the only manipulations done beyond standard mixing and EQing were: (a) linear fades at beginnings and ends of some clips and (b) abrupt cuts in the middle of some clips. It's a commonly known phenomenon in sound editing that abruptly chopping a waveform at a point where its amplitude is non-zero results in an acoustic artifact—a staticky, popping sound, which was deliberately exploited to lend a percussive effect to the mix.
emergens chordis is an original piece for glass bottles, composed and performed by Masa Gibson. The title was inspired by the title of a theoretical physics paper, Emergent Strings from Infinite Distance Limits (2022, Lee, SJ., Lerche, W. & Weigand, T.), in which strings refers to the one-dimensional building blocks of the universe postulated in string theory.
Full video (4 minutes; listen with stereo):
The video depicts a bottle player who temporarily gains control over spacetime and plays alongside alternate versions of themself to weave together a polyphonous, interdimensional interlude.
As with other entries in the Bottlemusick series, everything on this track was performed on glass bottles. While some of the track may sound electronic, all the sounds recorded were acoustic, and the only manipulations done beyond standard mixing and EQing were: (a) linear fades at beginnings and ends of some clips and (b) abrupt cuts in the middle of some clips. It's a commonly known phenomenon in sound editing that abruptly chopping a waveform at a point where its amplitude is non-zero results in an acoustic artifact—a staticky, popping sound, which was deliberately exploited to lend a percussive effect to the mix.