Superposition by Vanessa Li

Category: hardware equipment design, spatial sound engineering
Date: November 2018
Realisation: Spatial Sound Institute
Link: https://vanessali.github.io/superposition.html and https://spatialsoundinstitute.com/Superposition-2018

“As Artist-in-Residence at the Spatial Sound Institute, Vanessa Li has built an interactive sonic environment wherein participants can explore these questions through sound and movement. A soundscape of recognizable sounds provides an anchor from which participants can navigate. ‘Time’ will then be made subject to the will of the participant who can slow down, speed up, stop, or move backwards within the temporal domain.” by SSI

For this project, I worked as both technical support and sound engineer. Since part of the development occurred at a separate venue within Funkhaus, I was also responsible for coordinating the transition and adapting the setup to the new space. In addition, I supported the first integration of the POZYX position tracking system into the 4DSOUND environment by prototyping the initial hardware setup, calibrating the system, and installing the anchors.