Sonic

NOVEMBER 2009

@ THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM                  
St. Petersburg, Russia
www.hermitagemuseum.org

In association with:
Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography
National Center For Contemporary Art
www.ncca-spb.ru
and Cyland MediaLab
www.cyland.ru
Saint-Petersburg Branch
St. Petersburg, Russia

The Sonic Self - An exhibition exploring sound related art, curated by Jolanta Gora-Wita, Anna Frants, Yaro, Koshek Swaminathan, Koan Jeff Baysa, 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.

The curators of the Sonic Self will bring this unique international sound project to St. Petersburg, Russia, in November 2009. The Sonic Self project (initiated in the spring of 2003 by Jolanta Gora-Wita) was recently presented  at the Chelsea Art Museum, NYC - July/August 2008. More information at:

http://chelseaartmuseum.org/exhibits/2008/sonicself/index.html

The Sonic world (an audible space); an emerging intersection between the audio and visual experiences, based on increasing internet and digital technology inventions -- gave the sound a significant stage in the surrounding environment in the multimedia environment of contemporary culture then ever before. The exploration of the sound emergent spaces, time of audio resonance, sound design, audio-visual simulation, virtual dimension, linguistic utterances, musical performance or random ‘noise’, becomes an individual expression which could exceed its form in relation to our internal self and sonic influences. As Damian Catera says: “Sound is no longer trapped within the mechanism of the ear; its multidisciplinary aspects are reflected in a blurring of sensory experiences. Sound is tactile, visual, spatial and spiritual. These elements have long been ingrained in the experience of sound since the dawn of humanity.”

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…

Participating artists include: 

Sound 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.

Video and Multimedia by:

Romeo Alaeff, Christian Austin, Natalie Bewernitz/ Marek Goldowski, Dmitri Bulnigin, Phil Dadson, Denny Daniel,  Hasan Elahi, Anna Frants, Frankie Hutton, Kit Krash, Anna Kolosova, Amy Cohen Banker/Amy Kool with Nigel Dickie, Olga M, Alexandra Lerman, Natalia Lyakh, Eugene Rodriguez, Miroslaw Rogala, Dmitri Shubin, Maria Sharafutdinova, Kirill Shuvalov, Srinivasan, Pawel Wojtasik, Jarek Zajac, and specila guests.

Live Music and Sound Art Performances by:

COMING SOON ...

The Sonic Self active associates include Chelsea Art Museum, NYC; Agency of Culture and Cinematography, NYC; National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg Branch, CylandMedialab, St. Petersburg, Russia; Fine Arts Academy of Krakow, Cricoteka - Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow, Poland; Harvestworks, The Constellation Group Ltd, Stellar Public Relations, Net for Art and Bincode New Media, NYC.  A/V system and sound made possible by Greg Smith, Legacy Studios and Nigel Dickie Production, NYC. Internet Technology by: M M Rahman Maqsood and Sergey Teterin. Additional support by:  Balinoff Inc., Kool Events , The Matrix Art Collective, NY and DennyDaniel Video Production, NY.

For contact & detailed events program please visit www.thesonicself.org   -- e-mail:  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   or call 1-646-678-2418.