Vanishing Portals

Abstract

Vanishing Portals is a 3D music composition made in the acousmatic tradition of sounds which are heard but not seen. The following document is an attempt to capture the compositional processes, the artistic, historical, and technical, that are intertwined, and sometimes ephemeral. The writings weave self-reference in art, self-similar structures in macro- and micro-sound, the infinity of space, and the techniques of spatial sound design using ambisonics.