16th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research 2025
Written on May 10th, 2025 by AH
Photo: Conference Poster presentation at SAR 2025 in Porto. (Photo by Dustin Zorn)
Dustin Zorn presented “Resonating with live-electronic ghost tones” at the 16th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research 2025 (Porto, PT).
Title: RESONATING WITH LIVE-ELECTRONIC GHOST TONES
Abstract:
This artistic research reinterprets the so called ghost tones that Pauline Oliveros created with her live-electronic setup, used to record the piece “I of IV” in 1966. By translating the analogue setup into a digital instrument and by drawing on the historical references, including Hugh Le Caine’s Touch Sensitive Organ (1955), it allows to resonate with the aesthetic and technological possibilities of the historical setup, and opens up potentials for a new performance practice of the piece, thereby laying groundwork for further artistic explorations.
