The Octopus Project: Hexadecagon

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Hexadecagon’s first listeners encountered a spectacle. They filed into a circus tent in The Octopus Project’s Austin hometown and took in an extended live performance through a surround-sound system, accompanied by eight channels of experimental video. As with The Flaming Lips’ Zaireeka, another opus that’s as much about the logistics of listening as it is about the sounds contained within, absorbing Hexadecagon through six fewer speakers and eight fewer videos (or seven if you count a muted Planet Earth) means you’re taking in something completely different: a sound file instead of a tripped-out multimedia event.