Due living where I do, I can't say I would have seen any relevant noise installations. Seen few, but nothing one could count relevant. Back in early 90's I remember listening to nationwide experimental radioshow talking about 100 speaker out-door sound installation park. Was wondering about the magnitude of the event. Got this message from the artists from Boston, and perhaps fits to link it here, and perhaps people are able to get idea of matter of discussion.
I do have TEOLLISIA TILANTEITA CD, early 90's Finnish sound installation cd, which is pretty decent. Never saw that when it was happening. In theory, I like the idea of multi speaker sonic art, but thinking what kind of crowd would be surrounding and talking bs while things happen, it makes me wonder can it really work out? Still, idea of capturing actual space and physical distances as element of sound, is appealing.
Quotewww.sun-boxes.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/MUUDMusic
http://www.wcax.com/story/14500144/solar-powered-songs
http://www.artscape.org
Sun Boxes comes to Artscape 2011
Sound artist, Craig Colorusso, brings his latest piece, a solar powered sound
installation; SUN BOXES, to Artscape 2011.
For three days in July Sun Boxes will be in Baltimore as part at the Rabbit Hole
portion of Artscape 2011. At Pearlstone Park on Preston Street, between
Cathedral Street and Howard Street.
July 15
July 16
July 17
Sun Boxes is a solar powered sound installation. It's comprised of twenty
speakers operating independently, each powered by the sun via solar panels.
Inside each Sun Box is a PC board that has a recorded guitar note loaded and
programmed to play continuously in a loop. These guitar notes collectively make
a Bb chord. Because the loops are different in length, once the piece begins
they continually overlap and the piece slowly evolves over time.
Participants are encouraged to walk amongst the speakers, and surround
themselves with the piece. Certain speakers will be closer and, therefore,
louder so the piece will sound different to different people in different
positions throughout the array. Allowing the audience to move around the piece
will create a unique experience for everyone. in addition, the participants are
encouraged to wander through the speakers, which will alter the composition as
they move. Given the option two people will take different paths through the
array and hear the composition differently. Sun Boxes is not just one
composition, but, many.
We are all reliant on the sun. It is refreshing to be reminded of this. Our
lives have filled up with technology. But we still need the sun and so does Sun
Boxes. Karlheinze Stockhausen once said "using Short-wave radios in pieces was
like improvising with the world." Similarly, Sun Boxes is collaborating with
the planet and its relation to the sun.
I've seen a few:
John Duncan in an old factory building in Florence : big pressed carboard "rooms" connected by lots of colored pipes. Some were spreading sound from some hidden dvd or cd player, other could be used by visitors.
Throbbing Gristle with some artist i don't remember at Centre Pompidou in Paris : some mirrors/speakers hanging from the ceiling, with guitar feedback and various field recordings. Volume was definitely too low to be appreciated.
A Rauschenberg piece at Centre Pompidou in Paris : a bunch of junk metal with some kind of engine. A pedal can be pushed every 7 minutes, to obtain shaking and rattling noise from the sculpture.
An artist i don't remember at Venice Biennale ages ago : a big room with a lone amp, microphone and wires hanging on some water. Just a bunch of buzzing sounds and a few feedbacks, and the remote danger of electric shock. I think the artist was from Brasil.
None of these were too exciting, except the John Duncan one that at least had good sounds.
I recently brought this book -
http://www.boffinsbookshop.com.au/books/9781877004025/sound-sculpture-intersections-in-sound-and-sculpture-in-australian-artworks (http://www.boffinsbookshop.com.au/books/9781877004025/sound-sculpture-intersections-in-sound-and-sculpture-in-australian-artworks)
- for Noise fans, this might be interesting -
The artist Michael Graeve has built entire spaces as sounding edifices. Sound as mass is achieved in a dense way in his installations, The Room (1995) and The Great Wall Of Sound (1995). The Great Wall Of Sound...was an installation of fifty speakers forming a wall in a formation three metres high and five metres long. The speakers emitted the sounds of twenty-five record players scratching and spinning around without records. These objects, and electric power cords, were housed behind unused painting stretchers, out of sight of the viewer. Graeve made a performance behind the speaker wall, hidden from view, subtly tuning and redefining the sound field of this dense wall of sound before an audience of some sixty people. The decibel level fluctuated... During the three days of the installation, the sound was a dense field with subtle micro-changes caused by the indeterminacy between speakers, turntables, and the position and attention of the perceiver and passersby. The artist tuned it afresh every day so that there were subtle differences each day of the installation. Certain dynamic levels had to be maintained, as this was a foyer piece that had to fit into the normal day-to-day entrances and exists of the Institute's users...
It is an awesome task to listen to this dense sound field of fifty speakers. One must listen for a long time and immerse oneself in the experience before the effect of microscopic change becomes audible or noticeable. Standing, sitting or moving past the speakers sets up individual and variable sound patterning. After listening for a while in such a large space and then re-entering other acoustic habitats, one's hearing seems cleaner, sharper and more acute.
Last year i have witnessed the following ones at ars elektronica which, despite the arty/scientifical approach, is definitely worth a visit and I am going to spend my vacations there again for the second year ina row.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZPHMUUpor8
this actually follows a music partition...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KMa4L_5JDQ
one of the highlights of the festival, imagine it very loud inside an ex factory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zocebv3sk8A
and my personal fave (which I have fully recorded)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3L1-kdFdg
http://vimeo.com/6736512
Not a noise installation but probably of interest to some here: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/arts/design/15kenn.html
The artist enlisted Snorre Ruch (Thorns) to compose a soundtrack to play during the exhibition.
(http://arttattler.com/Images/Europe/England/London/Royal%20Academy%20of%20Arts/GSK%20Contemporary/Banks-Violette---Untitled-(Church),-2005.jpg)
When touring in Europe about 5 years ago I was lucky enough to see Sardh (often overlooked German industrial/experimental act playing since the late 80s) at the Landesbühnen Sachsen, a large performance space outside of Dresden. Each member had a full set up of whatever instrumentation they used (electronics, percussion, bass, junk objects, etc.) and were situated at a good distance from each other, often in a separate room. The intensity level of the individual sounds would obviously change as you moved around the building and changed proximity to each member. Good performance.
Some Sardh related links:
www.sardh.de
http://www.morphoniclab.de/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y70Pl7iUh_U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tcjljUVTUY
Nico Vascellari did several performances involving O'Malley and John Wiese.
Some of them were really interesting.
an excerpt from Revenge at Biennale in Venice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4C-utE2oac&feature=related
Quote from: tiny_tove on June 09, 2011, 05:31:19 PM
Nico Vascellari did several performances involving O'Malley and John Wiese.
Some of them were really interesting.
an excerpt from Revenge at Biennale in Venice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4C-utE2oac&feature=related
This clip looks really interesting and intensive. I read an interview about him in the Wire a while ago, haven´t picked up anything yet. Where should i start? The Prurient collab?
Been discovering this artist lately -
http://bertoiaharry.com/ (http://bertoiaharry.com/)
You can get a nice idea of what his work sounds and looks like here -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNJXZSl5BfY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNJXZSl5BfY)
Lovely dark, yet ethereal sounding music. His original vynal albums start at fifty bucks US each, both from his site and on Discogs, but there's some material online -
http://433rpm.blogspot.com/2011/05/harry-bertoia-energizing-mellow-tops-lp.html (http://433rpm.blogspot.com/2011/05/harry-bertoia-energizing-mellow-tops-lp.html)
http://433rpm.blogspot.com/2011/04/harry-bertioa-continuum-lp-sonambient.html (http://433rpm.blogspot.com/2011/04/harry-bertioa-continuum-lp-sonambient.html)
My BA exhibition work was on show in Lahti back in 2003.
Locked/looped record players.
Picture here:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eB-ilwaLLBs/R8Pu-PpwGwI/AAAAAAAAAAw/D3Hyfs2YJB8/s1600/levarit.jpg
Quote from: Mattias G on June 09, 2011, 05:37:10 PM
Quote from: tiny_tove on June 09, 2011, 05:31:19 PM
Nico Vascellari did several performances involving O'Malley and John Wiese.
Some of them were really interesting.
an excerpt from Revenge at Biennale in Venice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4C-utE2oac&feature=related
This clip looks really interesting and intensive. I read an interview about him in the Wire a while ago, haven´t picked up anything yet. Where should i start? The Prurient collab?
Yes.
I also enjoy his hardcore past. With Love were very intense.
Now he has a similar project named Lago Morto, but he is more a performer than a singer now.
Magriet Kicks-Ass also makes some nice installations http://www.margrietkicks-ass.nl/
as you see these pics from 2006 http://www.margrietkicks-ass.nl/2006.html Margriet puts signal in, makes the installations move and they keep giving the new signals back what results in a nice semi automatic noise performance
Someone posted this on another board.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHQBAwmD-aE&feature=related
I really don't know what to say. I mean is this really what thinking outside the box in noise boils down to nowadays?
Quote from: AC on September 12, 2011, 02:25:43 PM
Someone posted this on another board.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHQBAwmD-aE&feature=related
I really don't know what to say. I mean is this really what thinking outside the box in noise boils down to nowadays?
That wasn't even the full video either. It was completely fucking insane. Easily the most original performance I've seen to date.
The guy that made the Kestral920 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjeqH4GwhEg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjeqH4GwhEg)) also did this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBcvQm9kW60 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBcvQm9kW60)
Looked at almost every link & this is the only one I liked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3L1-kdFdg
that was fucking loud.
I have the whole performance recorded.
this year ars was less noisy but much more enterteining, especially in the Japan department.
will post infos in a few days.
been going to shows at THE LAB in San Francisco this past year,http://www.thelab.org/ (http://www.thelab.org/), volunteering for their sound based and other art exhibitions. This space (http://www.thelab.org/images/stories/juried201022.jpg) hosts legitimate noise gigs and art exhibitions all year round. The pic is from the exhibition "A floorless room without walls" I saw John Wiese/C Spencer Yeh, Thomas Dimuzio, Damion Romero,Xudgef, Wrong Hole, Gerritt Wittmer, +dog+, and several other solid noise gigs there this past year. Always great and adequate sound system, Highly recommend booking here if you come to California, since I volunteer there I can book there too if I get the chance. So feel free to message me about this place.
HERES A COOL LITTLE STORY ABOUT PLAYING A NOISE SHOW THERE I GRABBED FROM SIXES' BLOG
CUT OUT OF PDX AROUND 2AM - 11 HOUR DRIVE AHEAD OF US - HAVE TO MAKE IT BY 7PM FOR SOUNDCHECK - WITH THE HELP OF UTE AND RACHAL AT THE HELM WE BLAZE THROUGH IN ONE SHOT - NOT REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THE LAB - EVERY SHOW I'VE PLAYED OR SEEN PREVIOUS SOUNDS POOR . SPARSELY ATTENDED . OVER ALL A CONCRETE CAVERNOUS BOX WITH AN INADEQUATE PA - TERRIBLE FOR EXPERIMENTAL GIGS - STOP BY TERMINAL - GRAB THE SYSTEM - SURPRIZING LARGE TURNOUT - ROOM HAS BEEN CUT IN HALF & SOUND BAFFLES INSTALLED - WITH COMBINED SOUND SYSTEMS THERE ARE 2 STEREO PA'S & 3 SUBS - WITHOUT QUESTION THIS IS THE MOST FACESCORCHINGLY VOLUMOUS VIOLENT EVENT TO HAPPEN WITHIN THESE WALLS TO DATE - ALL STAND UP SETS ON THE BILL WITH AMPLE LIBATIONS TO LUBRICATE ONES INHIBITIONS - CONTINUE CELEBRATIONS DOWN THE STREET AT THE UPTOWN WHICH ENDS IN A GOOD 15-20 OF US BEING 86'D & BARTENDER THROWING A PUNCH AT S. ARFORD (WASNT LANDED) WE COULD DESTROY THESE FUCKS BUT WHAT BETTER WAY TO END A KILLER TOUR
TRALPHAZ
HORAFLORA
JENCKS
SUDDEN INFANT
SUN JAN 31ST
SUDDEN INFANT ---------------
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------------------------- R. JENCKS
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c7RbP8ckiD8/S5ClyOCj1hI/AAAAAAAAAtY/-ntF-wiRcIQ/s320/4326604422_637acc1a3b.jpg)
TRALPHAZ =================
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c7RbP8ckiD8/S5Ck6ITPYTI/AAAAAAAAAsw/_4vDbBod-Pw/s320/4326599820_57e0e332c1.jpg)
=================== HORAFLORA
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AT THE LAB
oh yeah, since this tour which was sometime like summer 2010, the lab has been furnished with a better PA system than mentioned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4TclxEtQ20
I was supposed to Yoshihide in Osaka back in 2009 but the performance was sold out. I still lament missing it. He was doing a performance with all sorts of strange sound generating devices in Osaka...
i have offered, and have been asked to, set up an "altar room" of my junkstruments for exhibition/installation here in finland and estonia. never happened. yet. usual reason has been that "qualified" artists (students? graduates?) exhibitions receive the money and spaces.. i even set up this "portfolio" style website for the committees to check out, haha... who knows, hope to get lucky. thats gonna be new territory. sound installations rule!!
of course, hail bertoia!!
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1NGC2b/zimoun.ch/
LaMonte Young's "Dream House" in Bologna. It's located in an old church. Pink lights and humming, pulsating and buzzing synth. Nothing incredible but it's a nice sound to witness for a while.
Hasn't Chop Shop done quite a bit of this in the past?
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on June 07, 2011, 09:03:50 PM
Due living where I do, I can't say I would have seen any relevant noise installations. Seen few, but nothing one could count relevant. Back in early 90's I remember listening to nationwide experimental radioshow talking about 100 speaker out-door sound installation park. Was wondering about the magnitude of the event. Got this message from the artists from Boston, and perhaps fits to link it here, and perhaps people are able to get idea of matter of discussion.
I do have TEOLLISIA TILANTEITA CD, early 90's Finnish sound installation cd, which is pretty decent. Never saw that when it was happening. In theory, I like the idea of multi speaker sonic art, but thinking what kind of crowd would be surrounding and talking bs while things happen, it makes me wonder can it really work out? Still, idea of capturing actual space and physical distances as element of sound, is appealing.
Quotewww.sun-boxes.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/MUUDMusic
http://www.wcax.com/story/14500144/solar-powered-songs
http://www.artscape.org
Sun Boxes comes to Artscape 2011
Sound artist, Craig Colorusso, brings his latest piece, a solar powered sound
installation; SUN BOXES, to Artscape 2011.
For three days in July Sun Boxes will be in Baltimore as part at the Rabbit Hole
portion of Artscape 2011. At Pearlstone Park on Preston Street, between
Cathedral Street and Howard Street.
July 15
July 16
July 17
Sun Boxes is a solar powered sound installation. It's comprised of twenty
speakers operating independently, each powered by the sun via solar panels (http://www.shinesolar.net).
Inside each Sun Box is a PC board that has a recorded guitar note loaded and
programmed to play continuously in a loop. These guitar notes collectively make
a Bb chord. Because the loops are different in length, once the piece begins
they continually overlap and the piece slowly evolves over time.
Participants are encouraged to walk amongst the speakers, and surround
themselves with the piece. Certain speakers will be closer and, therefore,
louder so the piece will sound different to different people in different
positions throughout the array. Allowing the audience to move around the piece
will create a unique experience for everyone. in addition, the participants are
encouraged to wander through the speakers, which will alter the composition as
they move. Given the option two people will take different paths through the
array and hear the composition differently. Sun Boxes is not just one
composition, but, many.
We are all reliant on the sun. It is refreshing to be reminded of this. Our
lives have filled up with technology. But we still need the sun and so does Sun
Boxes. Karlheinze Stockhausen once said "using Short-wave radios in pieces was
like improvising with the world." Similarly, Sun Boxes is collaborating with
the planet and its relation to the sun.
I am fortunate to see some of these events but now these events don't take place.. People mostly hate noisy places.
Stephen Cornford
http://scrawn.co.uk/works.html
http://rumpsti-pumsti.blogspot.de/2014/01/stephen-cornford-archipelago-kinetic.html
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TKwDLJY_jZc/UuzC8fmuYKI/AAAAAAAAAtk/9gNUWEHDHqs/s1600/cornford-expo.jpg)
"Discovered" the artist Gordon Monahan today, who has done some cool stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=delDUry0_eo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgiu3DBgr1g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vItgY9osiWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3LS0GdY14
especially the swinging speakers had me hypnotised so to speak
Not installations per se, but a nice clip on Harry Bertoia's sound sculptures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcv-_hNdN7U (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcv-_hNdN7U)
Especially in the latter half of the video, some fascinating sounds...
BJNilsen is doing an installation based on the Broad Building in LA. http://www.thebroad.org/programs/sky-lit-volume-light-and-sound-broad 2000 tickets sold in 38 minutes.... I guess there are a lot of architecture students in LA. It's a weird world.
Rudolf Wakolbinger (AT) - Expansion of the Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv0E0B0CwTE
seen three weeks ago in Linz. absolutely majestic and powerful.