Long Throw: An Exploration of an Expanded Energetic System for Cello and Loud
Speaker is a live performance that expands the physical properties of projected sound
energy via amplified cello. The cello signal is projected by a custom-built parabolic speaker –
projecting a far-reaching beam of sound. Its unnatural quality is enhanced by the spatially
synthetic behaviour of the controlled beam and the cello’s sound projection. The reflection or
refraction nascent to the site lends an uncontrollable element to the signal in a project that
harnesses energy to create large-scale bodies of spatial sound phenomena.
The project has been realised and built in close and ongoing collaboration with media artist
and engineer Miodrag Gladović. From February 2019 to January 2020, Gladović built a
prototype speaker and tested it in Zagreb with Caddy in both interior and exterior
environments. From this first iteration Gladović designed and built two parabolic speakers to
the sonic specifications of the artist.
Premiered at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, February 2020.
Commissioned by Sonic Acts as part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative
Europe programme of the European Union.
