During my university years I conducted a research trying to find the means through which sound objects, as the are defined by Pierre Schaefer, can be treated for exhibition as actual tangible objects.
The main difference between an object sonore and a physical one is the factor of time. A physical object once positioned and left alone somewhere, is timeless. It stands there showcasing its attributes. On the contrary, sound is time dependent. It has an onset, duration and an offset, therefore it seems that by following the laws of physics, an effort to treat a sound object as a tangible one on exhibition would be in vain.
Yet an artist undertakes sometimes the role of an illusionist. If the illusion that a sound object is timeless can be created, then the purpose of the research will be successful.
I created an algorithm in max/msp which plays back random parts of a sample and crossfades them with each other, then it is directing them to one single output. The audible result is a sound object that is always there at a specific position in space but it never ends or repeats itself in a loop thus acquiring the sense of time. Lets not forget that time is the result of a periodic gesture.
When a sound object has gone through this process it is being turned into a Choroechon (Choros in greek means space and Echos means sound).
Choroechoic composition is the compositional strategy and procedure which uses Choroecha in order to create a spacial artwork of sounds in the same manner a visual artists creates a composition in space out of tangible objects.
This procedure will be used to create an installation using choroecha that are produced by the unwanted artefacts or sonic garbage that have been mentioned below.
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