Sonic

Sound Art Installation by: 

David Marcus Abir, Mikhail Acrest, Paul Amlehn/ Robert Fripp , Damian Catera, DJ Olive, Phil Dadson, Fiorentina De Biasi, Anna Frants/ CylandMedialab, Ivan Govorkov/ Elena Gubanova, Timur Kuyanov, Melissa Lockwood, Lisa Moren, Shelby Voice and Virgil Wong.

- DAVID MARCUS ABIR “TEKRAR: NORTH EAST COLUMN” (2007-2008).  
STAINLESS STEEL,  POWDER COATED Q-TRAN WHITE, CLEAR COAT,  CUSTOM LED SYSTEM, ROSCO GELS, SELF POWERED SPEAKER SYSTEM, MUSIC COMPOSITIONS, 2 IPODS.
COURTESY OF JOHN AND SUSAN TREMAINE.
THIS SCULPTURE IS A REPLICA OF THE ONE THAT STANDS IN THE ENTRANCE HALLWAY OF TEKRAR, A FREE STANDING PYRAMIDAL STRUCTURE WHICH HOUSES THE PREVIOUS EIGHT STUDIES IN THE TEKRAR SERIES. THE WORK IS COMPRISED OF FOUR SECTIONS, EACH REPRESENTATIVE OF THEIR CORRESPONDING INSTALLATIONS. STATIC LIGHT EMANATES FROM EACH UNIT PRESENTING EACH LEVEL AT A VARIABLE POINT IN TIME. TWO INDEPENDENT MUSIC SYSTEMS, LOCATE AT THE POLAR ENDS OF THE TOTEM, REPLICATE THE ECHOED SOUND PATTERNS OF THE GREAT HALL. THEY ALLUDE TO THE SONIC IMPRINT OF THE MUSIC WHICH PERMEATE THE SPACE, REFLECTED OFF THE COLUMN ITSELF.

-  MIKHAEL ACREST “ +bragaphone |expirator 273|"
Audio installation of crisscross pneumo-hydrodynamic effects bragaphone is a pneumatic device of sound extraction based on the expediency of hydraulic seal (air separation) in the process of alcohol fermentation under anaerobic conditions.  The period of the bragophone's active functions is about five days, after which yeast fungi gradually lose activity and die on the thirteenth day due to the inability to exist in the alcohol that they had produced the reservoir with water solution of sugar and yeast (“home-brew“ or “braga“) is equipped with a module for throttling of streams of carbon dioxide in ducts towards terminals that are located in two hydro acoustical resonators.  The terminals that emit bubbles of carbon dioxide by batches into the water create an underwater and above water acoustic resonance that is registered by the microphones.

- Paul Amlehn/Robert Fripp.  The Seven Words. New Zealand artist Paul Amlehn in collaboration withEnglish musician Robert Fripp. The sound art project consists of three compositions of spoken word by Paul Amlehn and soundscapes by Fripp: 1. Untitled / Queer Space Symmetrical 2. Kriya / At the End of Time 3. Ophiuchus Improvisation / Queer Reflection Harmonic Minor. Fripp's soundscapes were improvised live and digitally recorded to hard disc,
then sent to the other side of the world to Amlehn who re-recorded the works to 2-inch analogue tape, adding accompanying vocals to the music. The aim of the process was to achieve a powerful synthesis of voice and soundscapes, one which functions on both conscious and unconscious levels in the audient. The resulting compositions are evocative, moving, and disquieting, giving birth to the multiple worlds that are contained within the self.

* More about Artist: www.artanomaly.com/ about Project www.king-crimson.com/news.htm?entry=1280&position=360

- DAMIAN CATERA “deComposition 1+Eroica” (2006). In this 5.1 surround sound listening environment, the expanded sonata form of Beethoven’s’s 1st and 3rd symphonies is systematically disassembled via processes of chance and randomization. A new “deComposed” version is transformatively realized. My objective in this piece was to unravel this nineteenth century structure with the tools and paradigms of twentieth and post twentieth century music. Utilizing randomization algorithms, which I wrote in the MAX/MSP programming environment, the original recordings are  cut up, altered and randomly re-assembled. The resulting soundscape is an immersive environment, which engulfs the listener in a multi-sensory way.  Nineteenth century order-based music reinterpreted through twenty first century chaos.
The dialectic of order and chaos is the very essence of being.
deComposition  1+ Eroica  appears in the Sonic Self  courtesy of The Hogar Collection Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

Preview of installation: art.rutgers.edu/~catera/hogareditions.html  More about artist www.catera.net/

- PHIL DADSON INCANTATION (2 x 7’ looped videos), 2006. Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite, Auckland, NZ.
To incant is to sing, to chant and to enchant. This work was made in late 2006, not long after Pope Benedict XVI’s controversial criticism of Islam. Incantation was a tangential response, a personal work with whimsy as a guise of sorts for an underlying outcry.
The mask-like instruments – Ekoakio and Sprong – have resonance with many things but primarily function as resonantors for the voice and its harmonics.
Incantation proposes a triadic relationship between the two interacting screens, and the viewing space between them.

More about artist: http://www.sonicsfromscratch.co.nz/ Past video/sound/installation http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qm8Ghgturfk ; http://youtube.com/watch?v=21cOq7tEtng

-  Fiorentina De Biasi “The Rose” - THE POETRY OF TUPAC SHAKUR . HIP HOP CULTURE REACHES INTO THE WORLD OF FINE ART; THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS SOUND and visual INSTALLATION IS THE POETRY AND image OF TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR, PERHAPS THE BEST KNOWN FOUNDER OF THE MOVEMENT.  IN HER SENSITIVE TREATMENT OF HIS WORK, MS. DE BIASI HAS COMPOSED A SERIES OF IMAGES OF Tupac manipulated WITH his poetry and tied to HIS LIFE AND urban culture.  IN PARTICULAR, THE ARTIST SEEKS THROUGH THIS WORK TO HONOR THOSE WHO STAND UP FOR THE POLITICAL IDEAL OF THE POWER OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND HIS OR HER ABILITY TO SHAPE SOCIETY BY THE SHEER STRENGTH OF THEIR OWN CREATIVITY; AN IDEAL EXEMPLIFIED BY THE LIFE AND WORDS OF TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR. The installation will focus on a specially designed audiovisual experience incorporating Tupac’s music and poetry so as to provide a sound environment for viewing the artist’s work.

- ANNA FRANTS “Drum Painting”. An interactive audio-video installation using specially designed software for non-traditional methods of visual artistic expression. Written by the Cyland Lab, the software makes it possible to see sounds and hear colors through algorithmic means. While the mechanics of the approach are totally different from those of traditional painting, the creative processes share a lot in common, and one often cannot tell which approach has been used. The “paintings in motion” created from musical expression are projected on two large stretched canvasses. At the same time the software sends images to print on a special paper canvas.

More about project www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNamg30usck & http://www.cyland.ru ; www.touchmeweb.com  About artist: www.annafrants.com/

- Ivan Govorkov/Elena Gubanova “Vanya, Come Home” , 2008. In the artists’ installation, the viewer seems to be situated near the radio telescope’s antenna.  There is a chair on the floor (a most common object, known to everyone).  The viewer sits down.  Behind his back, there is a picture of a huge dish of the radio telescope that is open to the outer space.  He puts on the video helmet and prepares to perceive sounds and images of the unknown, but finds himself in the realm of the real.  Sound in the ear phones appears to be intercepted by the antenna itself.  However, this is not an abstract noise of the outer space, but rather, unexpectedly, a real voice of the woman that keeps repeating the phrase “Vanya, come home”.

- Timur Kuyanov “Daylight”, 2008. An isolated space all internal surfaces of which are covered with daylight lamps, preferably old ones or slightly defective, blinking and humming.  Having found himself in such a room, the visitor will most likely be compelled to close his eyes and activate his hearing, and believe me, that which he will hear will be interesting, one can expect God knows what from one such lamp, and here there are dozens of them...  Basically, this is, in fact, the substitution of notions (I, of course, call it so conditionally; it is hard to express my idea more precisely):  a person who came to see daylight listens instead to strange buzzing and humming and tries by touch to find his way out of this room (much like out of this state).

Sound preview: www.last.fm/music/Timur+Kuyanov

- Lisa Moren "Récord, recórd, recollection (II)". A viewer approaches a series of large, brown-printed portraits and is invited to draw on them. Like the magnetic head of a tape recorder reading a cassette tape, the viewer's gesture will enable the voice of the person whose image they are drawing on. The voice is difficult to hear clearly; therefore, the viewer will either be content with random "voicelike" sounds, or they will draw more consciously to hear what the portrait is saying clearly. However, the more the viewer draws audio from the portrait, the more the viewers both erase the person's image of whom they are listening and graffiti the fading photograph. Eventually the portraits will completely fade, leaving only an archive documenting the listeners.
About past projects: userpages.umbc.edu/~lmoren/projects.html About artist: userpages.umbc.edu/~lmoren/curatorial.html

- Shelby Voice “The Concessions” - an interactive video/installation piece designed to provoke the participant to see themselves in a more objective 'third person' perspective than he/she might be familiar with. The project features a 'Concessional booth'- a structure made entirely out of two-way mirrors, modeled after a confessional. Voice has replaced the priest, or the anonymous party sitting in to talk to visitors, with a surveillance camera and T.V. screen. As the participant enters the booth, they may lock the door behind them and speak freely to their own image on the T.V. screen, which is recorded live and played back to them in real time. The two-way mirrors that make up the walls of the booth are positioned in such a way that, as one approaches the booth, they see only their own reflection, and once inside the booth, one can see through the mirrors to the people outside, who might unwittingly be checking themselves out in the mirrors while they think no one is watching.

- Virgil Wong “Womb of the Pregnant Man”, 2007
Multimedia installation, 10' X 10' X 10', Image: http://www.rythospital.com/print/malepregnancy-4X6.jpg
"Immerse yourself into the artificial womb of the world's first pregnant man. See, hear, and smell the gestation of this historic pregnancy."

Past projects: www.virgilwong.com/installations/ About artist www.virgilwong.com/installations/index.shtml