Tag: sound art
Artist Erica Sellers‘ new work The Grind is a wooden plank, artificially rippled to mimic her field recordings collected around the city. To create the artwork, audio samples of New York City were collected over the span of a month and converted into sound waves. The sound waves were then transformed into various three-dimensional surfaces using 3D […]
Swiss artist Zimoun’s latest installation in the UK consists of 96 prepared dc-motors rattling wooden balls inside 96 cardboard boxes. Video above. Zimoun according to bitforms gallery: Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of […]
The shock of the new is a difficult thing to renew. This is an era in which continued exploration of outer space is expressly whelming, intellectual incuriosity wins friends and influences people, and thousands of musical instruments lay broken in city schools while hotly heralded iPads are promised and then somehow mislaid. There comes a […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist Melissa Clarke talks about Untitled: Ice Gouge for Performance — her sound piece, installation and performance that sources field recordings of glaciers. The artist is also premiering footage of her performance of the piece at Brooklyn’s Silent […]
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 changes as you walk along […]
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 […]
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 tone: “otoacoustic emission.” It’s going […]
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 echolocating bats, abandoned buildings in […]
