Yann Novak - Scalar Fields '2019

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From Yann 
Scalar Fields is a body of work encompassing audiovisual installation, prints,
and sound works initiated in 2013. In these works I used the idea of the scalar
field as a simple framework to experiment with time-based works that are not
dependent on time when experienced.

I wanted to explore slowing down video to the point that change was
imperceptible and create sound with no attack or decay, only sustain. My intent
was to create a time-based piece that could be experienced more as a painting or
sculpture could: a static object that gains meaning though prolonged
observation.

I was interested in what would happen when the audience was given agency over
their experience. As the series progressed, the concept drifted further and
further from the titles formal association with math or
physics––instead the framework developed a life of its own.

This release documents the sound elements from two of the audiovisual
installations in the series: Scalar Field (f9bf3b, fde3a7, 4183d7, 1f3a93) shown
in Los Angeles in 2016 and Scalar Field (f89406, f2784b, f64747, f62459) shown
at the Dancity Festival in Foligno in 2015.

01. Yann Novak - Scalar Field (yellow, blue, yellow, 1.1)
02. Yann Novak - Scalar Field (yellow, blue, yellow, 1.2)
03. Yann Novak - Scalar Field (yellow, blue, yellow, 1.3)
04. Yann Novak - Scalar Field (yellow, blue, yellow, 1.4)
05. Yann Novak - Scalar Field (orange, pink, orange, 1.1)
06. Yann Novak - Scalar Field (orange, pink, orange, 1.2)
07. Yann Novak - Scalar Field (orange, pink, orange, 1.3)
08. Yann Novak - Scalar Field (orange, pink, orange, 1.4)

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