I WENT TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (AND IT WASN’T THERE) is a 3D sound installation-performance by Christina Campanella/Latitude 14. The audience wends through a forest of speakers; fractured sonic dispatches evoke the dimensionality of future landscapes; an imagined world replaces one erased by rising seas. The installation is primarily sonic architecture, the parameters of the space and the outlines of the narrative are conveyed by the sounds as they move through the 8:4:1 multi-tiered system of speakers. LIGHTHOUSE seeks to free listeners from any physical space, except for being inside the environment and out. The system creates a hermetic world that people can enter; their ears complete the piece by experiencing the logarithmic movements of sound. Listeners can also experience the piece from outside, as a considered whole, a distant thickness of separate yet complete sound. LIGHTHOUSE was developed through a residency at Harvestworks, commissioned with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Christina Campanella is a composer, vocalist and sound artist who creates music and sound-based works across disciplines. Her pieces for theater, film, installation and playback blend songwriting and composition with aural design, weaving found sounds, ambient textures, and a dreamy avant-rock sensibility into cinematic soundscapes and deconstructed art songs.