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Sonic Orphans

2010-09-09T10:43:00.000-05:00

Phillip Andrew Lewis and I will be playing live under the name of LPPD during Bill Daniel's Sonic Orphans screening on Sunday September 12 at 7:30PM in the main art gallery on the campus of the University of the South

new section of Trenchtown Documentary

2010-03-23T12:09:00.002-05:00

part of the interview with Patrick Lee is available for viewing at the following url:

http://vimeo.com/10175792

Of Walking in Ice opens in Portland

2010-03-04T11:04:00.004-06:00

The exhibition curated by Jack Ryan that I posted previously has just opened in Portland Oregon at the White Cube in the White Stag building downtown, west side, north edge of Burnside.

the exhibition now has two online reviews:
Ultra
Port
more information is here

Vantage

2010-01-22T14:07:00.012-06:00

I am in a group show with Avantika Bawa, Golan Levin, Stephen Slappe, Victoria Haven, and Isaac Layman called Vantage that just opened at the Archer Gallery at Clark College
in Vancouver. The show was curated by Blake Shell.

The show was posted on artforum.com...here

My contribution, That Intricate Never, was a sound work using PD that re-sampled itself and responded to the acoustics of the room.

It also was mentioned on February 10, 2010 on disquiet.com and reviewed by Lisa Radon (who also e-publishes Ultra) for Portland Monthly here.

Of Waking In Ice

2009-11-15T14:24:00.012-06:00

Jack Ryan has invited several folks to respond to Werner Herzog's Of Walking in Ice that will start at Soil in Seattle December 2, then move to the White Cube in the White Stag building in Portland in March. The show includes Steven Thompson, Dominic DeJoseph, Melody Owen, Donald Morgan, Bill Daniel, David Berman of the Silver Jews, and others. My contribution is below and more details are here and here and here- Jack's images from the opening and exhibition are here.

The cover of the first edition of Herzog's book is above and below is my work in the show. A branch of a cherry tree carved by hand and with a small chainsaw that is mounted to a subwoofer on the bottom and has a small speaker embedded in the top, out of sight. I made a sort of soundtrack for the book but filtered the sounds so each speaker seems quite distant from the other.

objects on the horizon

2009-10-10T23:26:00.006-05:00

group exhibition at the Ewing Gallery at UT Knoxville

reflected territories

2009-10-10T22:14:00.011-05:00

hoopsnake collaborative project in Saint Louis at the Good Citizen

made with the help of:

Randy Peterson
Nels Oscar
Stas Veselovskyi
Tyler Cooney

Reflected Territories is a sculptural work that shapes sound with
constructed objects and the architecture of the building itself. The central sculpture was designed to reflect, obstruct, amplify, or attenuate certain sounds depending on their wavelength and volume. Certain sounds can pass through each of the successively smaller iterations of the open triangles while other are reflected in other directions or killed altogether. The differences are hardly registered by the human ear but measurable. Microphones gather the sounds at different points and create a feedback loop of the sounds by sending them back through the small speaker and the larger parabolic speaker placed a few feet from the sculpture. The sounds are processed by an opensource programming environment called Pure Data. A second computer captures sounds as they bounce around (the resonant frequencies that bounce through the building itself) and projects them via the octagonal speaker and microphone at the back of the room. The arrangement of the sounds is dictated by what the computers record and find in the sounds and simple but shifting directions written into the code.

The entire sound field is initiated by introducing a single sound into the room, a recording of one key from a piano in need of tuning. This sound reappears periodically, adding another referential layer of feedback. While not musical, the composition of the sounds is dependant on this very simple sonic theme similar to, but more basic and fundamental, the approach taken in arrangement of a fugue in classical music in which a simple series of notes is used to construct a complex work. These sounds are not arranged to provide a recognizable musical structure. Rather they are reformed and shaped by the building, the sculpture, and the animal skins on the wall with the intent of expanding and compressing the sense of space and altering our sense of the place.

The Arctic Book Club

2009-09-20T21:18:00.013-05:00

The Arctic Book Club is an exhibition based on An African in Greenland by Tété- Michel Kpomassie running from September 18 - October 24 in Manhattan co-curated by Michelle Levy of EFA Space and Jean Barberis of Flux Factory.

download press release

images of my work in the show:

objects on the horizon

2009-09-10T01:12:00.005-05:00

I am in a group show with Greely Myatt, Jason Brown, Deborah McClary, and more at the Ewing Gallery at UT Knoxville, School of Art and Architecture August 17 - October 4.

2009-03-04T09:38:00.008-06:00

Bethany Springer has curated the Physical Reminders at the University of Arkansas art gallery- The line up of artists looks really good + this is my grandfather's alma mater and my family has deep roots in Fayetteville so I am very happy to have this opportunity to bring my work there.

Artists Lain York, Mike Wsol, Claire Watkins, and Michael Jones McKean were all there for opening and lecture series

show opens March 25
images of my work for the show

A Raising

2009-03-04T09:36:00.013-06:00

a show at Ditch Projects in Oregon

opening April 3- a sound installation in a old mill turned gallery operated by Rob Smith, Donald Morgan and more good folks.

The building straddles a creek and a microphone is set down in one of the holes in the floor that is open through the concrete to the water. The sound was reprocessed to generate a raised waterline of sorts in the space and a second mic was in the gallery to contribute an ebb and flow of additional feedback in the sound. I tried to channel Tartovsky, particularly Stalker as I have been really interested in his films the continued but transforming use of water as metaphor in his films from Rublev to Stalker.

I also had the chance to play live with my friend Rob Smith at the opening for the first time in a while...

Bluff Poseidon

2009-03-03T21:49:00.010-06:00

Sound performance called POSEIDON/SERENADE in collaboration with Patrick Deguira for Polymer will be at the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga on March 26. Jason Lee Wilson joins us to play his excellent rock-a-billy in this three headed work designed for that tri-part building. JJ Johnson helped us out with the setup and helped me during the performance- it would not have come together without his help.

Thanks to Phillip Andrew Lewis and Jessica Westbrook for organizing this and for the pictures.

2009-03-03T21:44:00.009-06:00

The Fugitives were invited to participate in BIN by SEED in Chattanooga
http://seedbin.wordpress.com/

An exhibition including Graffiti Research Labs, Guerilla Girls, Deadtech, Team Lump, Paintallica, a contingent of the Yes Men, and others.
We were given a stipend and a cardboard box so we bought more boxes and built an bellowing tower using samples contributing fugitives and Pure Data. I built a speaker and amplifier system inside some of the crew came up and we constructed this hollow chamber of interlocking boxes for the tower that stands about 11' tall.

2008-10-29T22:00:00.011-05:00

Stephen Vitiello at church

Stephen Vitiello came to Sewanee to put up a show of graphic scores in the Carlos Gallery and a 6 channel installation in a decommissioned church now used by the college's Music Department. I set this up using a simple PD patch to play the 6 channels and present title information.

2008-10-29T13:23:00.012-05:00

Fugitive Projects 60 Second Project at Dublin Electronic Arts Festival

we were included in DEAF thanks to Alan Lambert whom I met in Cairo for the Ministry of Culture's IMAFY event. Alan is part of the Solus Film Collective in Dublin. The program is running at the Sebastian Guinness Gallery

more information at Fugitive Projects site

2008-10-29T12:49:00.009-05:00

Userland[s]- expanded

adapted from the previous installation- this time using cameras and sensor data networked between 3 cpus to create an installation that uses the central grid as a score. Other phenomena: from audible, visual, and movement, affects the changes in the sound. The pieces in the grid are movable, the score was recolored and shifted periodically throughout the show.

2008-10-27T09:49:00.007-05:00

Exhibition Curated by Matt Freedman for the FiveMyles Gallery in Brooklyn who generously shared the opening for a screening of my and Emma Houllihan's collaborative venture to reconstitute the No Place video exhibition I curated for Cheekwood 2 years ago.
http://www.fivemyles.org/current/

Here is the list of artists:
Kazuhiro Goshima (Japan) Fade Into White #4
Pavle Vukovic (Serbia)Run Rabbit Run
Bill Daniel ( USA), Sunset Scavenger
Melody Owen ( USA)
Harrell Fletcher ( USA), The Forbidden Zone
Kristin Lucas (USA) Lo-Fi Green Sigh
Charles Huntley Nelson and Kevin Sipp (USA) Mutropolis
Collectif-Fact (Switzerland) Reliefs
Magda Tothova (Slovakia) Lenin and the Maiden
Michelle Browne (Ireland) Chambermaids
Mark Clare (Ireland) The Perfect Human
Paul Murnaghan (Ireland) Light From a Dead Star
Ted Davee, (USA) CrowFilm,
Dixon Myers, Chris Stone, Natalie Baxter, Greg Pond (USA and Jamaica), The
Ambassador
Krista Connerly, USA, untitled (romantic mountains and sea with horse mask)

2008-10-27T09:40:00.007-05:00

Fugitive Projects Begins a New 60 second Video Project
information is at this link:
http://fugitiveprojects.com/video-2009/

2008-10-27T09:34:00.006-05:00

Reverse Angle
Exhibition I assembled from an open call for the Cheekwwod Museum in Nashville October 11 2008 - February 22 2009

Blogreader by BanGuel Han

Artists Include:
Keith Sullivan- New York
Natalie Frigo- New York
BanGuel Han- Detroit
Bjorn Erik Haugen- Oslo
Alexander Reyna- Miami
Timothy Hutchings- New York

2008-07-28T02:01:00.009-05:00

up coming...
end of august

3 solo shows
+
Hans Christoph Steiner will run a free Pure Data workshop on Saturday 08.30
+
Stephen Vitiello will be doing a sound installation in the old St Luke's Chapel in conjunction with his show
I will post details of the hours the sound installation will be open to the public after the opening on 08.29 very soon

2008-07-21T17:03:00.009-05:00

FM Post for the Grand Mal, Ian Curtis, and all Mountains Under Erasure

new work for a show at Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, another link for ZG here

2008-04-16T11:27:00.005-05:00

thoughts on reading the Society of the Spectacle in Cairo...

I recently returned from Cairo, showing some videos and jurying media art prizes for the ministry of culture
more on this coming soon...

2008-03-17T22:49:00.005-05:00

When the Lion Eats the Dragon, Totem for Mumford
steel, rabbit skins, t-shirts

this is a few years old but had yet to make it to the web....

2008-03-17T17:51:00.003-05:00

celinas- ep by Kevin McCoy
I made the first track with Kevin using some PD patches we wrote and recorded in July
cover image made by Kevin

download here:
celinas

2008-02-22T17:32:00.020-06:00

A portable sound station with 3, 4 -channel sound pieces generated with Pure Data are orchestrated by 2 internally-networked cpus housed in the wooden sculpture. The sounds generate an alternating expanding and compressing sonic landscape with various kinds of manipulated waveforms through granular synthesis and other techniques. The code is projected. The sensors and an Arduino microcontroller in the wooden sculpture respond to the way the sound behaves in each space and provide input that affects the behavior of the software and the sound. The piece can be connected to the internet and operated remotely.

Installed at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts

a lot of thanks goes to Collin Asmus for his help. His invitation to show there got me moving on this sooner than I would have otherwise and without his help it wouldn't have gotten installed.

Thanks also goes to Archie Stapleton and Lauren Busey for their help in the studio

software contributions in Pure Data come from Hans Chrtistoph Steiner, Kevin McCoy, and Dan Trueman

2007-12-28T14:31:00.002-06:00

installation from show at the Zeitgeist Gallery last summer with Bjorn Sterri

2007-12-28T14:29:00.002-06:00

A Known Distraction
bronze, steel, and paint

freedom from want freedom from need

2007-12-28T14:26:00.005-06:00

freedomfromwant & freedomfromneed- sculptures made from concrete statues, welded steel and vibrating motors controlled by Pure Data via a microcontroller. The motors cause vibrations and slight swaying motion throughout the steel structure. these vibrations translate to sound as the steel plate beneath the statue functions as a resonator with the floor. Images of the Pure Data patches that control the motors are below, software contributions by Hans Christoph Steiner

2007-10-31T17:15:00.000-05:00

one whose life was writ in water...

john keats' birthday on this day in 1795

sound installations in the Burren

2007-10-30T18:27:00.007-05:00

While on a residency in Western Ireland I was able to work in a places that allowed me the opportunity to learn more about sound as a sculptural medium. In these places I was able to use the unique aspects of the architecture as tool for affecting sound

Sound Installation at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughn, Ireland
Four sine waves with frequencies within 4-6 hertz of each other are released into
the room. The amplitude of each is controlled to vary rapidly, in specific patterns. Moveable walls create baffles for the sound to direct their movement. Because the frequencies are similar, the sound waves seem to combine and change shape when they collide. This can be heard and felt as they move through the space. The 8-channel speaker module was built for these projects.

sound installation at the burren college of art studios
code below:

Userland[s]
Sound Installation in Newton Castle, Ballyvaughn,
County Clare, Ireland, 2007
An eight-channel sound piece was installed through the four floors of the tower castle. Two speakers were placed in each room; one in the middle of the floor and the other directly above in the ceiling. This arrangement created a sonic pole that pierced the building. Sounds panned between the speakers and were delivered in such a way to affect one’s sense of the size of each room and the location of the sounds throughout the building. Each floor of the castle was built from differnt materials and had varying structures and shapes which transformed the sounds as they moved from room to room. Sensors were used to generate “behaviors” within the composition. When certain amplitudes or frequencies were detected in a certain place then the sound patterns are changed in response by the cpu- it can listen to itself and respond to its own behaviors.

notes for a supplanted landscape

2007-10-17T13:44:00.001-05:00

2007-10-13T10:28:00.001-05:00

monument for the memory of the ride over pink mountain
sound sculpture

code that generates sound patterns

collaborations with Bjorn Sterri

2007-10-08T12:55:00.001-05:00

Pure Data patch for a collaboration using Processing to scan images by photographer Bjorn Sterri and generate sound pieces from data gathered from the images

interviews from Trenchtown

2007-10-08T10:56:00.001-05:00

a series of stills from a documentary that I am working on about the history of Trenchtown, Jamaica

Benji

Paul Chambers in the theater on Collie Smith Drive

Melissa McCurrie

Theater on Collie Smith Drive

Bongo Rocko

men at Boystown on Collie Smith Drive

Documentary is in progress- a short version will appear in Galway City, Co. Clare Ireland as part of the City of Ideas exhibition in late November

2007-10-08T10:31:00.001-05:00

invisible city

animation still

2007-10-08T10:26:00.001-05:00

white flight- animation generated from Processing and Pure Data
the picture was taken from the hills above Marseille

2007-10-08T10:06:00.001-05:00

pattern recognition, still from a 2 channel video projection

2007-09-21T10:11:00.000-05:00

"I feel the flowers growing over me"

the last words of John Keats, the first words of this blog