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Aqua_Regia is a multi-disc sound work designed to be played from multiple sources simultaneously, functioning as a kind of portable sound installation kit. Composed of processed field recordings, A_R is concerned with the concept of indeterminacy and the role of observer in the full creation of any work. It is a recombinative work, distinguished by its not-quite-doneness, its lack of fixity, or rather multiple points of fixture, and its general sense of distribution, of being located somewhere beyond the plane of the existing sounds.
Openness is key to the experience of the work: any number of A_R's five twenty-minute discs may be played in any order, in any listening space. Typical listening situations might combine a stereo and a walkman, multiple stereos in different rooms, multiple channels of a radio broadcast, or any other configuration where several playback sources are available.
"Aqua Regia" is the 19th century scientific term for the mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acids, sometimes used to dissolve solids away for chemical analysis. When presented as a single stereo mix, the work's title changes to Aqua_Fortis, the antiquated term for nitric acid alone.
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Aurora_Atumna
