Heft TRANSMISSION Screening: Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, Michael Hoenig
Experience an extraordinary quality of cinema and sound, where moving image, music, and atmosphere converge into a fully immersive environment. Join us for this limited seated session featuring a complete screening presented at architectural scale through the Volumes listening system – transforming the gallery into a space for deep attention, perception, and collective experience.
Constructed entirely through the interplay of moving image and Philip Glass’s repetitive score, Koyaanisqatsi renders modern civilization as rhythm, pattern, acceleration, and collapse. Decades before contemporary discussions around networks, automation, and algorithmic life, the film proposed a systems-based vision of human existence that remains profoundly relevant to Heft’s program today.
This TRANSMISSION Screening uses the new ultra hi-fi listening system by Joe Doucet, Volumes, and a 32 foot projection wall. See the full schedule for more events as part of this initiative running May 15 – June 12
Ticket price helps cover costs of running this event. Soft drinks will be available.
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About Transmissions and Volume Speakers
Heft
NYC art gallery partnering with artists who use, and address, the ubiquitous systems of contemporary life. Partnering with a fluid roster of artists, the gallery shows a wide spectrum of work – emphasizing inventive uses of traditional materials, memorable experiences, and provocative artworks that are rapidly gaining recognition for advancing the New Systems art movement.
Heft created the TRANSMISSIONS initiative to bring together important musical experiences with a range of systems based fine artworks at their LES gallery. Running from May 15 – June 12 at Heft.
VOLUMES Listening System
Volumes Speakers are conceived as spatial instruments rather than conventional audio equipment. Each unit integrates five drivers, including front- and rear-firing elements that create a layered, multidirectional sound field. Paired with dedicated stereo subwoofers, the system produces both clarity and physical weight. Sound moves through the room rather than projecting from a fixed point, extending beyond the conventional stereo image. The result is an embodied listening experience where rhythm, frequency, and spatial information are perceived through the body as well as the ear.
Joe Doucet is a designer, entrepreneur, inventor, and creative director whose work sits at the intersection of design, innovation, and sustainability. Named by Forbes as "the living blueprint for the 21st-century designer," Doucet has received numerous awards including the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Smithsonian, and he holds multiple patents shaping how design touches everyday life.
Produced by Projekt Blank & Heft Gallery