entangled (excerpts for headphone listening) by pablo sanz published on 2019-02-15T19:12:13Z immersive ambisonic multichannel installation and live performance ongoing project series, duration and dimensions variable entangled explores the nonhuman worlds of the Amazon rainforest, focusing on the fascinating complexity of the continuous sonic flow created by insects, birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, fish, plant species, soil, water and the weather. The work facilitates a profound, active and sustained listening experience, cultivating intimate sensory encounters in which affectivity is favoured over signification and representation. The listener-participants find themselves in almost total darkness, without images or objects, within a sound field generated by a multichannel sound system. The work is a durational composition made from several hundred hours of environmental sound materials recorded in terra firme and flooded forest (várzea) ecosystems within the territories of the Amanã and Mamirauá reserves in the central Brazilian Amazon. The fieldwork was carried out over two months in the dry season of 2015, in collaboration with local inhabitants. entangled is experienced as a series of immersive installations and live performance events, featuring variable sonic materials and extended durations. The project uses higher-order Ambisonics. This audio is decoded to stereo (headphone listening encouraged).