PARTICIPATION Blue Peril Sonification is a multi channel audio and video installation bringing attention to the destructive deep sea mining proposed in the Pacific. Blue Peril tracks the toxic sediment particles that will ultimately kill endemic and undiscovered sea life in the pacific and will have massive environmental impacts. For this installation I will be using […]
PARTICIPATION sounding skin sounding skin casts the midriff in a starring role, witnessing a belly as it is pummelled and then adorned, creating a visual display of subtle movement and light. A part of the body that is much maligned and punished, even whilst it busily (and usually noisily) does precious work for the whole, […]
PARTICIPATION Insideoutmosphere is a sound sculpture that emerges from recording sound-deadened rooms and amplifying the results. The audio artifacts and micro noises from these exercises are turned into samples and intercut with equipment noise and additional environmental resonances. These sequences are then looped together, one-after-the-next, in a speaker-driven installation. In this instance, for FLOOD and […]
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 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 Cookbook’s are “Eh” Flavor is preference and sometimes I just want you to forget you even had taste. ok nephew aka grump is a musician/soundwiz born in Los Angeles and currently based in San Pedro. He presents sharp expressions and hard knock textures over chaotic pleasures for the sake of communicating. Language is merely sound. Artist […]
PARTICIPATION Gallery show, May 13 – June 17: The totem/tower is a mixed media collaborative work by Bill Faecke, Bill Jaros, and Nguyen Ly depicting abstract wheels, the cosmos, portraits of mystics, cult leaders, musicians, martyrs, and authoritarians. This work offers a meditation on the conflation of various identifiers of meaning, as it also leaves […]
PARTICIPATION Hani Choir Recorded in A-Zha-He Rice Terraces in Hong-He Region of Yunnan.Hani People who live there used to sing together when working, gathering and living in the field. Their sound mixed with the nature and their vocal change with certain landscape.Now, while the Rice Terraces vanish, their life style changes, and the Hani Choir is […]
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 […]