CONTOUR EDITIONS is pleased to present another installment dedicated to multi-channel sound installations, this time featuring two works – by Barbara Held and Kenneth Kirschner. Both pieces aim directly to the intersections of focused listening, experience, material, and space transforming the temporal make up of reception, and the perception of where the work is being presented. The listening situation is considered to be an integral part to the pieces, which is the general idea behind Contour Editions Installation. The label is committed to serve the pieces by ensuring adequate conditions for listening, care for the situation, attention to scale and space, its characteristics, layout, context (surroundings, conceptual framework), chosen equipment, and visitors flow. The programming of the label focuses on sound works that are consequences of a process, in which both content and format are equally relevant and conceptually intertwined. Topics of interest are sound phenomenology (perception, localization, physicality), sonic semantics (identity, meaning, context, structure) and topology (a broader study of spatial phenomena). Contour Editions Installation favors pieces that don’t compromise technically or aesthetically.

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