but in things

“but in things” is an immersive sound installation exploring issues of embodiment, disembodiment, and re-embodiment. The work features transducer activated instruments and objects placed throughout the given space. As audience members wearing bone-conducting headphones enter, sound emerges both from the instruments and through headphones, responding to their movements and evolving as they progress. The work will be programmed in Max.


“but in things” is an immersive sound installation exploring issues of embodiment, disembodiment, and re-embodiment. The work features transducer activated instruments and objects placed throughout the given space. As audience members wearing bone-conducting headphones enter, sound emerges both from the instruments and through headphones, responding to their movements and evolving as they progress. The work will be programmed in Max.

Matthew Goodheart is a composer, improviser, sound artist, and educator who has developed a wide body of work that explores the relationships between performer, instrument, and listener. His diverse creations range from large-scale microtonal compositions to open improvisations to immersive sound installations – all unified by the analytic techniques and performative methodologies he has developed to bring forth the unique and subtle acoustic properties of individual musical instruments.