Description

Gone For Eggs is a spatial audio composisition of 23 minutes, written by Philippe Macnab-Seguin (McGill, CA) specifically for large immersive speaker systems as part of his doctoral thesis.  Thursday the 4th of July, the composition will be played in ASIL (UGhent).

More info: https://asil.ugent.be/projects/gone-for-eggs/

Gone For Eggs is a spatial audio composisition of 23 minutes, written specifically for large immersive speaker systems.  Thursday the 4th of July, the composition will be played in ASIL (UGhent).

Every night, we experience a small taste of death when we lose consciousness in the depths of sleep. Every morning, we are born anew.  Gone For Eggs takes this fundamental experience as a starting point to explore the oscillation between day and night, consciousness and unconsciousness, life and death.

The texts were written by Philippe Macnab-Séguin and Nicholas Papaxanthos. Portions of The Book of Symbols by The Archive For Research In Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS) were included in movements iii, iv and vi with permission from Allison Langerak Tuzo, director of ARAS.

“Just as life gestates in the egg, so in ancient healing rituals would initiates withdraw into a dark cave or hole to “incubate” until a healing dream released them reborn into the upper world, in the same way the chick crawls out of the egg.”  - The Book of Symbols, The Archive For Research In Archetypal Symbolism.