Low Frequencies
‘’I pursue the idea and practice of a ‘vibrational experience’ and the therapeutic effects (reduction of stress and anxiety) of low-frequency sound and subwoofers, building a body of work called BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.).
The installations and concerts have site-specific compositions produced for each location. Analyzing the space specificities, I arrange subwoofers and select sound frequencies with consideration to their transparency (only noticed throughout tactile perception) as well as the ones that create other sounds such as resonances, reverberations.
A proposition for your whole body to be in contact with and shaken by different types of sonic vibrations and their impacts on our bodies and perceptions.’’
B.A.S.: TRIPLE CIRCLES
BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.): Behind The Concept
BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.)
B.A.S. previous installations
THE SUB-BASS SESSIONS (CONCERTS)
B.A.S. is an ongoing investigation of the possible interactions between sub-bass, infrasound, bodies, and subwoofers in a series of site-specific sound installations
and concerts composed of subwoofer arrangements and low-frequency sound (LFS). Throughout organized LFS spoken by subwoofers, Stefanie Egedy explores how this particular frequency range communicates with multiple types of bodies: human bodies—and how sound waves contribute to the nervous system with increased relaxation, reduction of stress, and anxiety—and structural aspects of the space where the installation is presented, informing correlations (resonances) between sound and constructional features (materials, walls, columns, and floor).
Often without conscious awareness, bodies (human and non-human) cultivate automation of perception. While usually inattentive to the complex network of physical resonances in its environment, bodies are sensitized through the materiality of larger sound waves.