1990
Pulished in Evocare L'udibile, (Franch / Italian) Charta, 1995, p. 117
The next one of these works took the idea to its extreme. It was called Two Sides of the 'Same' Room (Dallas, 1990). I took one room, placed a wall down its center dividing it into two spaces and then placed different sounds on each side. These sounds sounded identical, though, quite unlike Hamburg where the sounds were clearly different. The difference between the two spaces happened only after you spent a little time in each; each side evoked a completely different frame of mind even though they sounded identical. One sound evoked a feeling of openness; the other a tight and constricted feeling - taking one room and using sound to turn it into two places which are opposite yet sounded the same. The third of these pieces is the permanent one in Giorgio Persano's Gallery in Torino. It takes three spaces which are visually similar, not absolutely identical, and makes them into three different spaces using only two sounds. The rooms are in a row with two connecting doorways; each of the rooms on the ends has only one sound, and the room in the middle has both those sounds mixed together. The mixture isn't separable into its two parts; it forms a third space. Here the sounds were not as soft as in Dallas or in Hamburg, but they still demanded a shift in focus.
Max Neuhaus