PARTICIPATION HSn.e01.TVn3.00.55.124 Source – retrieval and manipulation of radio frequency guard bands and half duplex crosstalk interference. Pulled from late night radio scanning and various local analogue signals, all recorded artifacts were then processed manually through a VCR, via the audio/control head. Brandon Auger (b.1978) – artist and structural builder based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Working with […]
PARTICIPATION Inter-tidal Zone is a piece in two movements, Low tide and High tide. It uses programmatic material in the form of field recordings to represent the binary qualities of inter-tidal life. Low tide focuses on the society of tide pools and High tide focuses on a feeding frenzy. Found objects, samples and musical instruments […]
PARTICIPATION Audio portions are accompanied by live mixed video. Phog masheeen is a sound art/video collective from Costa Mesa, California that focuses on using aerophones, idiophones and electronics for performance and sound design. William Almas and Mark Soden Jr. constitute the phog masheeen core performers. Home-brew instruments, common objects and extended techniques involving dry ice […]
PARTICIPATION Dark Waters is a study of nautical superstition, presented as a series of videos of varying lengths.Why Nautical Superstition, you may ask.For the past soundpedro events, phog masheeen has picked performance themes that suited the physical location of the event, in a re-purposed fort built during World War Two to protect the harbor. Although […]
PARTICIPATION Interspecies Communication ’65 Inspired by a NASA funded study into interspecies communication between humans and dolphins. The study started in 1958 but in the mid-sixties it took some wild turns when LSD was applied to speed up the process. This is our tribute to those fearless explorers of the inner realm. Particularly, Peter, the […]
PARTICIPATION 💧💧 (Drip Drip) plumbing… @ the cusp of nature and culture…sirenic psychopomp guiding rain back to the sea… Source material (site specific to Angels Gate Cultural Center): field recordings of all pipe and tube systems, toilets w/ accompanying sonic latrinesquery, faucets, sinks, drains, etc. Phoebe Barnum was trained in the traditional studio arts. It is […]
PARTICIPATION Coronoise: deflections of disquiet σειρήνες “The Greeks imagine that, ‘there were three Sirens, part virgins, part birds,’ with wings and claws. ‘One of them sang, another played the flute, the third the lyre.’ ”(from Isidore’s Etymologiae) “If anyone goes near them/in ignorance, and listens to their voices/they will never travel back home.”(from Homer’s Odýsseia) Synopsis of […]
PARTICIPATION Gallery show, May 13 – June 17:FATED There is spontaneity in the work, pushing boundaries and finding liberation in in new materials. Having the backbone of traditional training has enhanced all of their forms of artistic expression. Phoebe Barnum was trained in the traditional studio arts. It has been clear that they were influenced by […]
PARTICIPATION “Cacophony consists of harsh often discordant sounds. These sounds are often meaningless and jumbled together. A Discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sound helps to convey disorder”. Barnum’s piece examines a linear juxtaposition of discordant sounds. Then:The works of the French composer Iannis Xenakis and American born John Cage were both innovative and avant-garde. They […]
PARTICIPATION F40.298 Opus Foramina # 27 Artist and former psychotherapist Peter Christenson captures sound and video from holes dug across WA state, seeking prognoses for his ailing client, Earth. Peter Christenson is a conceptual artist working across emergent and antiquated media, psycho-social sculpture, and immersive installation. For the past decade, he has made art under the […]