The Museum of Modern Art’s sound art exhibit opened over the weekend and now, the exhibit “Soundings” website has gone live. It features in-depth profiles and works from the exhibiting artists, including embedded sounds (of course)… and a section for contributing your own. The sounds are geo-tagged and mapped. To participate, just record your own “daily sonic experience” straight into their Soundcloud dropbox.
So far there aren’t many contributions at all but I can’t wait for the world, especially New York. I’m going to do my neighborhood bar tonight. Put it on that map. It’s going to be great.
MoMA is launching its first major exhibit of sound art this summer. Finally! The multidisciplinary exhibit will not only focus on sound pieces but also "architectural interventions" and "visualizations of otherwise inaudible sound" as well as explorations "of how sound ricochets within a gallery" and "a range of field recordings—including…
For one hour on August 16th, Danish artist Jacob Kirkegaard will present his interactive piece Labyrinthitis inside a floating cube in the main gallery of Eyebeam in Chelsea. Tones generated from within Kirkegaard's inner ear will be modulated to specific frequencies and ratios to "spark audible emissions within the audience's own ears." The physiological changes will generate a third…
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist Tristan Perich shows us the beginnings and production of Microtonal Wall, a piece currently on view at the MoMA "Soundings." Made up of 1,500 tiny speakers, Microtonal Wall emits a texture of sound that…
