I decided to do this project on the AMC movie theater one night while at the theater.
I had just come out of Dark City. I went to the bathroom.
I noticed how surreal the
entire theater was. How everything was perfectly
constructed. Everything was clean
and new, bright and shiny. The music followed me into the bathroom creating a
weird sort of continuous space between the lobby and the bathroom. Normally the
division between lobby and bathroom is marked acoustically by a decrease in volume
of the lobby music as you enter the bathroom and a silence
or a distorted version of the lobby music while in the bathroom. Here this acoustic
cue was erased. Sound had
been separated from environment.
This disturbed me.