Kangding Ray - 61 Mirrors Music for SKALAR

Ara

£35.55

Genre: Electronic
Format: 2LP
Catalogue No.: ARA006
B/C: 4250101421044
Release Date: 16th October 2020

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This music was composed for SKALAR, an audio-visual kinetic art installation by light artist Christopher Bauder & Kangding Ray.

SKALAR is a large-scale art installation that explores the complex impact of light and sound on human perception. Created by light artist Christopher Bauder and musician Kangding Ray, this monumental artwork is a reflection on the fundamental nature and essence of human emotions. By combining a vast array of kinetic mirrors and perfectly synchronized moving lights with a sophisticated multi-channel sound system, SKALAR offers an audio-visual narration of radiant light vector drawings and multi-dimensional sound in enormous pitch-dark spaces.

SKALAR is an intense journey through the cycle of basic human emotions. Everchanging tonalities trigger the full spectrum of emotional experiences using light, sound, and motion. The feelings of awe, surprise, exhilaration, and anticipation of having one’s senses overwhelmed are created, explored, and repeated in cycles throughout the piece, providing a collective, yet highly individual emotional experience.

Light and darkness as endless cycles of day and night define our perception of time and influence our emotions. SKALAR is a central piece within light artist Christopher Bauder’s body of work, reflecting his deep fascination with light. In this gigantic installation, light is treated as a solid material that can be dimensionally sculpted and shaped, evoking abstract emotional associations. Intertwined with the tireless exploration of textures, rhythm, and sound design by musician and composer Kangding Ray, the silence of darkness is filled with iridescent forms of spatial light and sound.

The original composition is spatialised in 360° over a 12 channels sound system, this stereo version has been mixed and mastered to convey a similar sense of space.
 As of the release of this record, SKALAR has been presented in Berlin (Kraftwerk) in 2018, in Mexico City (Frontón) in 2019 & in Amsterdam (Gashouder) in 2020.
Fore more information about the piece and its concept, please visit www.skalar.art

Tracklisting
A - 1 Kangding Ray Buran 00:09:32
A - 2 Kangding Ray Codex 00:08:02
B - 1 Kangding Ray Cnidaria 00:05:17
B - 2 Kangding Ray Oboe 00:04:35
B - 3 Kangding Ray Demera 00:05:59
C - 1 Kangding Ray Lodos 00:09:28
C - 2 Kangding Ray Ter 00:06:41
D - 1 Kangding Ray Sun 00:06:00
D - 2 Kangding Ray Qalm 00:08:41