Archives by Category · sound

1. Touched Echo (2007) by Markus Kison


touched echo – intervention in public space from MaUdK on Vimeo.

2. Speaker Synths by Lesley Flanigan

3. Rua Studio

Here are some photos I took over the weekend of Donna Huanca’s open studio from her LMCC residency. It included a sound installation I made. On Sunday, we played music and I recorded the performance on a handheld cassette player- it’s really rugged and messy sounding, I like it. The original was almost an hour long, so I edited it down to 20 minutes.

4. Soft Errs (2008) by Kabir Carter

5. Disco Machines by Peter Sinclair

6. Jeremy Boyle at Hudson Franklin

I went to Chelsea last week to check out Jeremy Boyle’s new solo exhibition at Hudson Franklin. I first became intrigued by his work after reading about his self-playing band on VVORK. His current show proposes to explore “the theme of circulation through pattern and recognition.” Coincidentally, Boyle was present in the gallery when I arrived, and he was on hand to discuss the work with me.

7. Interview with Walter Branchi

Walter Branchi is a renown Italian electronic music composer. Since the 1960s, his contributions to improvisation and musical theory have been widely recognized. He’s founded and co-founded a variety of initiatives, including the Studio R7 in Rome, LEMS (Laboratorio Elettronico per la Musica Sperimentale / Electronic Studio for Experimental Music), the electroacoustic music association Musica Verticale and the conference Musica/Complessita. He was a member of the freeform group Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza for nearly ten years, and was also a member of the Gruppo Intercodice ALTRO from 1973 to 1977. He has performed and taught internationally over the span of his career.

8. Untitled Sound Objects by Pe Lang + Zimoun


9. Interview with Jeff Talman

Jeff Talman is a sound and installation artist based in New York City. His work is a sensory meditation on the elementary sound of space. In his installations, he amplifies the background resonance of an environment by extracting and strategically redirecting ambient sound back into its place of origin. In so doing, he heightens the occupant’s aural perception of the surrounding area.

10. Interactive Muzak

Augmented Architectures is the experimental research team of architect Nancy Diniz and computer scientist Cesar Branco. Their approach to space centers around the variable and evolving interaction between person and physical surround. Described as “Situated Living Pieces”, Nausea Transformer is one of three projects comprised of fabricated “skin” operating in direct response to exterior stimuli. Their inventions “feel” the environment via the input information from movement, light, and sound sensors. This data is then translated by a genetic algorithm, which regulates adaptive corollary behavior. Nausea Transformer is specifically attuned to sonic conditions and it is programmed to output an ideal sound environment, which is “...defined by low amplitude (not very loud) and by a small difference in frequency between two consecutive samples averaged for a number of samples”. The machine indicates a disturbing direction for the next generation of muzak, where sound is no longer a cloak for unwanted noise but rather a strategic tool used to placate and conform surroundings toward a controlled environment. The indications of responsive sonic surveillance take on a ominious quality when considering the recent commercial use of ultrasound waves in public space as well as our oblivious adjustment to interruptive technology.
11. Joe Davis and Katie Egan- Audio Microscope (2000)

12. Operations of Sound


the Old Operating Theater

13. Peter Bosch & Simone Simons- De Krachtgever (1993-98)

14. Glacial Sounds

Artist Katie Paterson uses the sound recordings of melting glaciers to document and bring attention to environmental devastation. For vatnajökull (the sound of) Paterson set up a hydrophone in the rapidly growing lagoon of the largest glacier in Europe, Vatnajökull.

15. White Noise II


Eva Sjuve, Go Karamazov

16. Carsten Nicolai- fades (2006)

17. Gun Holmström- Omphalomin (2006)

18. Phillip Stearns- Burlap I II III IV (2006)

19. Lina Selander- 14th of February to 24th of June, 2003 (2003)

20. Ear to the Earth Festival

This week, the Electronic Music Foundation kicks off their second annual environmentally-conscious sound art festival Ear to the Earth Festival at Judson Church.

21. Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher- Reel to Reel at Clementine Gallery

Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher’s show Reel to Reel at Clementine Gallery closes on Saturday and I strongly encourage those in the NY to catch it before it comes down. For Reel to Reel, Shore and Fisher adhered a network of mechanical instruments on the walls of the gallery space. Once activated, the instruments play a 10 minute composition accompanied by live video sequences captured from tiny surveillance cameras in the space. During each performance, a dark blue light saturates the gallery, giving the piece a dream-like and eerie ambience.

22. Ghost Station by Kristen Roos


Kristen Roos, The Ghost Station, 2007, conceptual photo

23. Voice and Void Lecture at the Austrian Cultural Forum


Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller , Opera for a small room, 2005

24. Jacqueline Gordon Studio Visit

While I was in San Francisco I met up with Jacqueline Gordon and visited her studio. We ended up talking for a few hours and she showed me some of her projects. Jackie works in a variety of mediums- sound, installation, photography and traditional crafts such as quiltmaking and cross-stitching.

25. Avant Gardener

Courtesy of Vvork, I discovered the handmade electronic musical instruments of Brian and Leon Dewan today. The cousins create sleek analog sculpture-instruments, reminiscent of 1950s appliances, which they call “Dewanatrons”.