Sound Art
Just look at this cover and why wouldn’t you want to know more about the sonic bliss of sound sculptures.
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In 2018, Future Audio Graphics released a collaborative album between Guthrie, visual artist Virginia Overton and composer and theoretician François J. Bonnet. Sculpture Gardens that considers the intersections of sound, artistic intervention and environment.
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Underground Sculpture (2012) is an installation comprised of seventy-five 20 foot lengths of steel rebar buried below the ground. Viewers interact with the sculpture by using a variable pitch metal detector. Experienced primarily as an auditory-visual sculpture, the following recordings were made between 2012 to 2014 and represent various ways of interacting with the installation.
Underground Sculpture is located in the Mojave Desert at the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) Desert Research Station. To visit, please write clui@clui.org or smallworldmfg@gmail.com.
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Born in Pasadena, CA in 1931, Barbara T. Smith is a performance art pioneer. This two LP compilation of audio recordings by Smith is from select early performances. It is not generally known that Smith’s events were almost always accompanied by an audio environment specifically created for each piece. The recordings presented on this compilation have been pulled from their original context for the first time, providing the opportunity to consider the aspect of sound as an integral and uniquely concentrated component of the artist’s work. In step with developments and techniques across the musical field, Smith’s sound works are intensely original and have a sense of humor that is unique and totally her own. They include the use of bio feedback, synthesizer, sampled world music, cat purrs, aluminum rods striking the ground and original poetry. Much of the audio included on this compilation was made with the assistance of housemates, close friends and colleagues including Joseph Byrd of the United States of America and poet Liz Rymland.
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Published on the occasion of Hito Steyerl’s exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries in 2019. The soundtrack is to the video work, Power Plants, by Hito Steyerl co-commissioned by The Store X and Serpentine Galleries.
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Lisa Williamson is awesome.
Pump Suck is a recording in which the artist plays electric and manual breast pumps through a mixing board with contact microphones attached to the motors. Using the dials on each pump to control and manipulate the speed and rhythm of the motors, Williamson upends the original purpose of breast pumps and instead uses these productive (pump) and depletive (suck) machines as tools for amplification and distortion.
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A sonic document of canoe travel through the International Port of Chicago, the little Calumet River, and the I&M canal-the last great American waterway built during the canal era. From industrial harbor to tadpole pond, these waterways once linked the Gulf of Mexico with the eastern seaboard and opened up a flow of goods and people that fueled westward expansion and Chicago’s robust growth.
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This is a hand-made record containing soil from the house where Brian Wilson grew up in Hawthrone, California. The house no longer exists, just a modest statue commemorating the location.
The audio is an 18-minute field recording of the location on an afternoon in 2016, along with Jeff Hassay's occasionally audible breath and the wind, various animals, cars, planes, a helicopter and various gardener's tools all lend their sonic presence. It was recorded almost exactly 50 years after the Beach Boys album, Pet Sounds was released.
Each record is a unique vinyl made from clear resin and soil.
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Released and Produced by Vienna Secession on the occasion of Rosa Barba's exhibition 'Spacelength Thought' April 6 - Jun 25, 2017. The recording corresponds to Barba's 2017 short film Enigmatic Whisper, which was shot inside the studio of artist Alexander Calder in Connecticut.
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Collaboration with musician Fatima Al Qadiri, video artist Hito Steyerl and poet-artist-musician Juliana Huxtable. Published in conjunction with DIS Magazine and the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.
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LeRoy is awesome.
OutOut Houses is an installation consisting of 4 small rooms. The rooms are freestanding but connected by 10-foot long steel square tubes. Each room has a 14-inch wind turbine on its roof. As wind blows, the turbine blades spin and rub against a metal and rubber armature to produce a rhythmic sound. The turbines have been modified by the removal of specific blades, creating a different interval for each room. The number of blades per turbine is 21, 20, 18 and 16. From inside each room, a person can listen to the sound emitted from the turbine above, as well as hear sound from the connected rooms in an overlapping sequence.
The following recordings were made in Joshua Tree on October 16, 2011 at High Desert Test Sites.
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