Voice Studies for Empty Rooms No. 2

Voice Studies for Empty Rooms No. 2 — corridor study is a seven-minute audiovisual piece from 2026, the second in a series of studies in which a single voice is placed in an empty architectural space and the space is allowed to answer.

The room here is a corridor: long, hard, institutional. The voice sings short tones into it and the electronics are nothing but the corridor’s own response — its flutter echo, its resonant length, the way a held note comes back with one frequency boosted and the rest stripped — measured, then exaggerated, until the corridor becomes an instrument with a few very strong notes and no others. The image is the corridor itself, a fixed frame down its length, in which nothing moves except light, slowly, and once, far off, a figure crossing.

The studies are exercises in listening to a place before composing for it. This one found that a corridor is a very long, very narrow bell.