Noise installations

[FreakAnimalFinland]

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.

www.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.

[tisbor]

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.

[Andrew McIntosh]

I recently brought this book -
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.

[tiny_tove]

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

[tiny_tove]

http://vimeo.com/6736512

[SKY BURIAL]

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.

[SKY BURIAL]

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

[tiny_tove]

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

[Mattias G]

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?

[Andrew McIntosh]

Been discovering this artist lately -

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

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/2011/04/harry-bertioa-continuum-lp-sonambient.html

[Haare]

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

[tiny_tove]

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.

[barthard47]

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

[Ashley Choke]

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?

[PTM Jim]

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) also did this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBcvQm9kW60