PARTICIPATION Plastics Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021: Plastics is a sound sculpture consisting of four used 2.5 gallon water jugs, 20 coin motors, and 20 6-volt battery packs. Together, they create a meditative, rhythmic beating that subtly shifts as the motors phase in and out every once in a while. Each of these […]
PARTICIPATION One is unidirectional; the other is omnidirectional.One sees; the other hears.One gazes; the other listens.One focuses; the other filters.One appropriates; the other processes.One is hierarchical; the other democratic.One objectifies…Etc., etc., etc. Terry Braunstein: multi-media and installation artist. Don’t Touch guerillas about — around the globe — leaving traces behind.
PARTICIPATION Sound Collection Helmets The installation, performance and intervention-based works of Brian Black and Ryan Bulis have helped the duo develop the persona known as Brian and Ryan. Their Sound Collection Helmets are a literal means to collect the sounds of a city. For Soundpedro, the helmets will collect ambient sound and conversations from the show. […]
PARTICIPATION Charlize Theremin (Gathering At The Ghost Whole) is an interactive audio environment – an overgrown garden of discarded and found audio & objects, etching out a landscape of ambient noises and personal relics – urban, (a)tonal, distorted by time, and mashed together like a memory. We welcome you, as ethereal archaeologists of indeterminate origin, […]
PARTICIPATION Birdsong . Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2020:Curlew Blues A tent houses a cyanotype-reimagining of an Esquimaux Curlew painted by John Audubon. This Curlew is now extinct. We recreated the image with “extinct” recording technologies: cyanotype, audio tape, and vinyl records. Student-composed musique concrete compositions made from taped birdsongs play in the background. […]
Michael Mersereau (b. 1977) is a media and sound artist based in Oakland, California and Montreal, Canada. Mersereau’s work has been exhibited at institutions and galleries both nationally and internationally such as Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca in Ciudad de Oaxaca, The Diego Rivera Anahuacali Museum in Mexico City, and Maison de la Culture Claude […]
PARTICIPATION Online videos September 12th: Rebar Study Negotiating the balance of the rebar while trying to move ones hands and fingers to change the pitch. Tennis (Excerpt from Ribs, Act II) A real time emotional analysis/ acoustic processing of a live game of tennis. Excerpt from “Ribs”, Act 2. Jacob Wolff’s work and practice is […]
PARTICIPATION Sound Sails “Sound Sails” uncovers and amplifies the hidden sounds generated by the natural world as wind passes through man-made contraptions. Three separate wind vanes, each constructed from a different material (wood, steel, and PVC plastic), catch and respond to the wind in their own unique way. These sculptural objects act as studies on […]
PARTICIPATION Light Study: Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome is part of the installation series “Light Study”. Various movies are interpreted through Incandescent or LED bulbs and audio. in this case audio from the film will be interpreted into a sine or square wave in the 19 to 30hz range. For this installation the movie represented […]
PARTICIPATION Cacophony Sublime Using a vibrating/bouncing platform I want to have 3-5 linear steel sculptures bouncing and bumping against each other creating their own chance sounds while serenaded with an electronic looped sound track. They will be brightly projected upon with an LCD projector to create dancing shadows. Sounds will accentuate the visual conversation. I […]