conceived by

Gerhard Eckel, Gerriet K. Sharma, and Stefan Warum

Oblivious to Gravity was be realized with the compositional loudspeaker-tool issit - in Situ Sound Installation Toolkit.

It was developed with the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria)and was available throughout the entire duration of the project.

In 2013 a further issit (called 'hive') was acquired by the Atelier Klangforschung - Atelier Sound Research at the Department for Musicology Wuerzburg (Germany).

The technical tools allow creating and fine-tuning sound installations in situ.

issit offers the possibility to capture and create interactivity between sound and space especially to those installations working with a specific physical and spatial situation. It allows for playing and improvising with sound and  spatiality, the acoustic architecture and different materialities as well as for documenting the working process and capturing (i.e. recording) site-specific phenomena.

The result is a mobile and agile listening experience, especially shaped by the peculiarities of the specific space and its situation.

issit is made of carefully selected hardware and specifically developed software components:
The hardware consists of 32 active speakers ans cases, D/A converters, an audio interface, a laptop computer and all the cables and fixtures needed to easily disperse the speakers in any architectural or natural setting.

The software for {kA} is based on PD and SC3 provides versatile modules for sound file playback, sound synthesis and processing, signal routing and spatialization as well as recording and documentation.