Sonic

PRESS RELEASE

SONIC SELF
An exhibition exploring sound related art
July 17 until August 30

Opening Reception: Thursday, July 17^th, 2008, 7-11 pm

@ Chelsea Art Museum                              
556 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
212.255.0719
www.chelseaartmusuem.org

From July 17th until August 30th, 2008, the Sonic Self is bringing together local and international sound artists, musicians, video/multimedia and performance artists to facilitate the exchange and development of pioneering ideas, innovative skills and practices in contemporary Sound Art discipline.  The Sonic Self’  - a sound-art related exhibition aims at developing an open and direct audio-visual dialog between video and sound artists in order to expose significant similarities and differences in the growing confluence of audio and visual experiences in the emerging Sonic Culture, where; communication, sound and visual experience merge as significant pattern in the cultural sensibility towards sound and the surrounding persistent, random ‘audio architecture’ – a kind of sonic explosion that can be seen as a breakthrough of the Sonic Itself.

Jimmy Hendrix’s famous quotation “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace” can certainly also be applied to the Sonic Self’ as an underlying and unifying inspiration which brought together many of the participating sound artists from around the world with the main goal that their collaborative projects bridge disparate audio-visual practices and expose their shared languages -- human sonic resonance… 

The Sonic Self - An exhibition exploring sound related art, curated by Jolanta Gora-Wita, Koshek Swaminathan, Anna Frants, Koan Jeff Baysa, Yaro, with guest curator Maciej Zygmunt Czarkowski, will present works by selected pioneering artists, who use sound as their medium, encompassing a spoken word, field recordings, computer generated sound, video projection, interactive art, sound performance, avant-garde theater, live music and DJ sampling. The Sonic Self artists will collectively examine forms in which we communicate with each other and with the world around us by way of articulate sounds, music, dialog, visuals and motion - transforming the perception and transporting the mind through an internal sound experience.