PARTICIPATION soundpedro 2021 participation: N/A Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021: Golden Conch (sounds of silence) Based off the Golden Ratio and inspired by Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Confessional Part VII, Golden Conch, is an intimate interactive sculpture that invites you to participate by stepping inside, either alone or with a partner and contribute […]
PARTICIPATION soundpedro 2021 participation: N/A Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021: Dinner for One Indulging the now widely-known internet video genre ASMR, Dinner for One (2020) is a video short that documents one woman’s earnest but unsettling attempt at connecting with her internet followers, lovingly referred to as her “uglies.” Ava, a single, middle […]
PARTICIPATION AHKESPLUM AHKESPLUM deconstructs and reconstructs Abigail’s improvised gibberish. The text imitates an improvised passage of deconstructed words in one of Abigail’s improvisations. Abigail reinterprets this transcription as quickly as possible to transform the text while Jack adds a slowly enveloping distortion to build the intensity of this poetic outburst. Mystic Elevator is an improvisation duo […]
PARTICIPATION Improvisation We will perform an improvised duet between voice and electronics. ARTIST STATEMENT Mystic Elevator uses improvisation to create a soundscape unique to the performance space by blending raw vocals with live electronic processing. The individual perspective of each performer combines in a conversation-like duet, with each thought growing and expanding as it is passed […]
PARTICIPATION Dymaxion Final Assembly Durational installation performance for 2 technicians working at 2 workstations which face each other in the center of the space. The technicians refer to an infographic board with work instructions to be carried out over the duration of the performance. Tools and workpieces used by the technicians are sound creating devices, each […]
PARTICIPATION Dymaxion Resource Translation Unit The viewer is invited to inspect the last remaining desk from the Dymaxion Resource Translation Unit, which appears to be a normal office desk and chair, complete with office supplies and communication devices, but which does not behave in a normal fashion. By handling the various objects and elements of […]
PARTICIPATION Second Shift Shovelers Long Range Locators Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021: The Gleaners “The Gleaners” is a mapping of the cast-off sounds of a specific site, collected and manifested by two performers with matching setups: amplified wheelbarrows with additional sound modulation/amplification electronics with backpack-mounted loudspeakers. By navigating the space, accruing detritus which […]
PARTICIPATION Stimulus Progression of Automatic Behavior the idea that one should create a composition entirely of unintended sounds captured in the moment is at once completely absurd, but simultaneously ingrained in our current interconnected (remotely now), mirrored in the ubiquitous process of Google’s Streetview public-good surveillance program and its ilk we set out with essential […]
PARTICIPATION Vertices & Vortices Long-form experimental sound installation performance for 2 persons featuring a custom audio generation and spatialization system. The intent is to create an ecstatic and inescapable zone of sustained and slowly evolving drones and various other unrecognizable sounds, in order to envelop the listener and facilitate introspection or appreciation of the unknown. […]
PARTICIPATION Various Divergences #2 Part of a video series premiered at Experimental Intermedia NYC in December 2020, a fully online version of a normally intimate intersection of friends and artists from many countries. The source material was shot on a camcorder in 2003 at a Christmas market in Bavaria, and signifies for me a simpler […]