plato's cave by lance austin olsen

the philosopher plato posited that, a person chained inside a cave, and unable to see the outside, would formulate their ideas of the physical world based on the shadows projected onto the cave walls.

to a large extent, our individual views on almost everything are based upon shadows and fragments, and each of us constructs a world to our own liking based on the same fragments, yet experienced in endlessly new combinations.

each moment, or grouping of sounds in a performance, creates a visual map in our mind that would bear no resemblance to the map produced in another listener’s mind. the performance is being experienced in the form of audio shadows, filtered through that individual’s particular life and viewpoint.

infrequency (est 2001) publishes the experimental books, objects, and albums by canadian artists jamie drouin and lance austin olsen

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