david bithell
experimental music theater

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  pandora's hope
    interactive installation  (2005)
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description: this work explores the physical spatialization of sounds generated through a field of 8 computer controlled wooden boxes.  The performer and the audience may interact with the sounds, redirecting pathways and complex patterns of physically actuated sound within the boxes.

The title comes from a collection of essays by the French sociologist Bruno Latour.  In this collection he writes, "When a machine runs efficiently, when a matter of fact is settled, one need focus only on its inputs and outputs and not on its internal complexity. Thus, paradoxically, the more science and technology succeed, the more opaque and obscure they become."
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