FLAT

Domain

Austin Larkin

I would like to compose pattern as domain rather than object,
to have the index of refraction become the domain in the field on which it reflects.
From this, shadows and boundaries are not delineated as objects, embedding perceptual categories
or dividing awareness, but form indistinguishable states, like vapors of the earth.
The organizing of waves is construction, the formation of structure
in the way symmetries need to break for the becoming of a field, ornamentation elaborates on structure,
folds the structure, in the way you fold paper to create a new form.

Dark and moody photograph of color spectrum cast on architectural details.
Dark and moody photograph of color spectrum cast on architectural details.
Dark and moody photograph of color spectrum cast on architectural details.
Dark and moody photograph of color spectrum cast on architectural details.
Dark and moody photograph of color spectrum cast on architectural details.
Dark and moody photograph of color spectrum cast on architectural details.
Dark and moody photograph of color spectrum cast on architectural details.
Dark and moody photograph of color spectrum cast on architectural details.
Dark and moody photograph of color spectrum cast on architectural details.
Dark and moody photograph of color spectrum cast on architectural details.
Dark and moody photograph of color spectrum cast on architectural details.
Dark and moody photograph of color spectrum cast on architectural details.

(Images from top to bottom: Austin Larkin, Adsorption Photograph [62, 88, 237, 246, 262, 290, 325, 357, 379, 381, 400, 422], 2020. Courtesy: © Austin Larkin)

About the Artist

Austin Larkin is a composer and violinist focusing on elements of tone within the interstices of fields, symmetries, and patterns. His violin performance and practice is informed by research into dimensions of vibrating bodies. Larkin has worked closely on this research with Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney and Jarrad Powell, all whose work and philosophy remain an influence. From 2017 to 2018 he lived in Yogyakarta to study karawitan, specifically how the tones dwell and unfold. Larkin has toured extensively performing solo violin, often in combination with microphone and amplification, using both as distinct instruments to draw awareness to the limits and potentials of both and the spectrum of possibilities between, using the contrast, combination, and gradation as compositional material. His compositions and installations have been featured at festivals including Corridor, Yellow Fish, UMBRAL, and Radiophrenia. He currently lives in New Haven, CT.