being-time

The Mivos quartet (Josh Modney, Olivia De Prato, Victor Lowrie, and Mariel Roberts) and composer Eric Wubbels were in residence in Studio 2 to record his work being-time, for string quartet and electronic sound.

being-time is an audio variation on the psycho- logical experience of time. Extending nearly an hour, it moves from sections of extreme slowness and static sustains to high-energy plateaus of dense, saturated sound textures. In the final sequence, quadraphonic electronic sound pushes the performance into an altogether new dimen- sion, creating vivid psychoacoustic illusions by using extremely high sine waves.