PARTICIPATION
Debate: Zear Noize Box vs. Zpeaker
10 minute performances once an hour
Viewer participation throughout the evening.
Noize Box
A found Mid-Century, wall mounted, two door cabinet made of galvanized metal.
Equipped with a trio of piezo microphones, analog and acoustic sound generators.(strings, springs and moving parts)
Built within that is a listener/viewer-friendly series of knobs, toggle switches and buttons to create, distort and manipulate the sounds it generates.
Zpeaker
A 12″ Speaker hooked up as a microphone that generates sound by activating attached springs.
Thomas Zear Beyrooty has been a creative person throughout his life. Expressing art thru many various mediums. Sound is a large portion of existence for him. He has participated in 3 SoundWalk events, 1 Soundwalk gorilla performance and 3 SoundPedro events.
He has experimented with sound throughout his scholastic and professional years. In the early 1990s, he built his first combo piece, ‘Chamber Of Dementia,’ which started as an installation so the viewers could interact and produce sound themselves. He went on to amplify guitar pickups mounted to sheet metal and run it into pedals like loops and delays. His art has been seen and heard at CSUF, undergrounds, galleries and street scenes.
Artist Location: Long Beach, CA
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