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6/3/2003

The Sonic Self

Chelsea Art Museum, New York

Sound Related Art

Sound is born of pressure, literally and metaphorically. The visual is dominant, but sound actively shapes our interpretation of the visual. Sound is bound up in the image. It is neither simple nor complex. It is both mathematical and emotional. Sound informs on a primal level. It has roots in a biological imperative, but it is capable of such subtlety as to invoke tears.

'The Sonic Self' exhibition and associated events curated by Jolanta Gora-Wita, examine the ever increasing confluence of audio and visual experiences in contemporary culture. The exhibition and events bridge disparate audio practices by pairing sound artists, musicians and visual artists with the faith that their collaborative projects will expose and underscore their shared languages. This cross-fertilization of sound and visual art will be manifested in digital installation, video projection, DJ sampling and sound/performance art.

'The Sonic Self' includes work by:

Romeo Doron Alaeff - audio-video projection
James Avatar - sound
Damian Catera - sound continuum for laptop and headphones
Ted Ciesielski - video projection
Chantal Claret - video projection
Charles Coehn - video projection
Ian Couch and Mighty Robot AV - audio-video immersions
Chronic Electronic Orchestra - transpace
Dikayl - video projection
DJ Eccon- audio textures
Scotto Mycklebust - sound composition for laptop
Kazuo Kawasumi - sound performance
Japa Keenon - sound and music installation
Amy Kool/Valerie Barnes - audio-video installation
Jerzy Kubina - site specific installation and performance
Daniel Levy - audio-video installation
Pedro Yanowitz and 'Mornignwood' - video and musical performance
Rosalind Schneider - audio-video installation
Wojtek Ulrich - audio-video installation
Monika Weiss - site specific ephemeral installation and performance
Samuel Zakuto/Oliver Ray - audio-video installation
Krzysztof Zarebski/Krystyna Jachniewicz - site specific performance

For additional information about each performance visit web site: http://nyartsmagazine.com/pit/.

The project is made possible at the invitation of Abraham Lubelski, 'The Pitx{2019} director at Chelsea Art Museum. Guest curator Jolanta Gora-Wita. Sponsored by NY Arts Magazine, Berlinerkunst Magazine, dennydaniel.com, Labatt USA/Carlsberg and biNcode.com

Selected Presentation by:

o Romeo Doron Alaeff (video projection Mar 7 - Mar 30) "Crybaby" is an audio-video series that examines the emotional culture of crying: crying as a signature of the self, crying as a social mechanism and crying as a specific device in modern media, specifically film. Stripping out all narrative clues and using a variety of original and appropriated musical scores, the video series parallels crying and filmmaking as both singularly genuine acts as well as subversively manipulative devices.
ONCE, 1995 (TRT: 04:58) This experimental video was made by filming a short narrative as it was typed across a computer screen. Using a small computer program to delete text from the screen and re-center the text cursor, a story is told about a man who, while under the influence of paralytic medicine, tells a lie in order to disclose a painful truth. Mimicking this way of telling, using choreographed mistakes and typos, the author unfolds a shifting narrative, revealing what is often psychologically or emotionally hidden within the telling. In this fashion, Once, exposes the slippery nature of meaning and shows that we often reveal more through our "fictions" than we do when we tell the "truth". BLUE MOON (FANTASY INTERUPPTED) Elvis Edit, 2001 (TRT: 03:59) A "love scene" between a man and a woman is continually interrupted. There is a vast, uncomfortable and humorous space between fantasy and banality, between finding true love and being alone. IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES Tunnels Only Edit, 2002 (TRT: 03:23) Routine passage through the Midtown Tunnel (NYC) is intensified by considering the possibilities and impossibilities of consolidating two opposing perspectives. Actual womb sounds underscore the dialectic of safety and fear. In the post-9/11 context, the work brings in tones of hyper-reality, beauty, harmony, disorientation, claustrophobia and surveillance.

o Damian Catera (sound installation Mar 7 - Mar 30) - 'NYC TRANSFORMATION/ deCOMPOSITION' Goodbye Sonic Youth (Tin Rain On). A Real-Time, Sound Continuum (for laptop and headphones, 2003). NYC TRANSFORMATION / deCOMPOSITION Goodbye Sonic Youth (Tin Rain On) is a reflection on the city's rich sonic palette and its aesthetic undercurrents. For this piece, sounds recorded throughout the city, as well as the Sonic Youth piece Rain on Tin, are sampled and randomly transformed with algorithms that artist wrote in the MAX/MSP programming environment. These sound manipulation algorithms reflect his interests in stochastic composition as well as relationships between randomness, order and chaos. This automated process yields a collage-like soundscapes, which continuously evolves and re-creates itself in real-time.

o Chronic Electronic Orchestra and James Avatar (performance Mar 14, 2 - 6 pm) - "TRANCESPACE" media mix performance. This "Live Mix" collaboration created by performance artists, musicians and Djs will create an active dance floor of a social experience where different kinds of media are manipulated in real time to evoke a direct response from the audience.

o DJ ECON (performance Mar 29, 5-8 pm) - "TRANCESPACE" - A real-time sound and video performance. Live performance using elements of underground music, live DJ turntablism to create a unique exhibit; enhancing the museum experience. Museum visitors are encouraged to interact with the space by dancing as Dj Econ uses his turntable wizardry as "Audio Textures" and to enhance the experience.

o Kazuo Kawasumi (performance Mar 7, 7:15 - 8 pm and Mar 23, 2-6 pm) - "Glasscade" is the Sound Installation/Performance using the glass side board and stairs in the museum. The various sounds of glass, from a delicate tinkling sounds to a big breaking sounds actually will flow out from the glass . The Sound Coils will be attached by tape on the surface of the glass and they make the glass itself Speakers to play the sound of the glass. The electric cord connecting the sound coils to the amplifier will be fastened on the glass edge. One amplifier and one CD player will be installed on the corner of the ground floor.

o Amy Kool and Valerie Barnes (video Mar 7 - Mar 30) - 'Kinesthesia' audio-video projection. Kinesthesia or art in motion is represented by a thirty minute video presentation. In addition to the visual ---colors, patterns and forms ---and the tactile---textures, Amy Kool's Mandalas have, via video, undergone another dimension: motion, light and sonic sound. Through this means, Kool and Barnes have attempted to evoke emotions such as awe in the galactic sense, sorrow for the sufferings of man and womankind, the innocance of the untried and the healing of survivors. To accompany these emotions there is the introduction of unearthly sounds which animate the motions of the forms as in choreography. Constantly in flux, the nuanced colors reflect the luminous, the irridescent and the divine. Underlying Kinesthesia, is the mystical prerogative that implies eternity.

o Ian Couch and Mighty Robot AV (performance Mar 15 and 16, 2-6 pm) - 'Joshua light and sound show'. This live audio-video installation will express the spirit of the Joshua light show troupe which once graced venues such as the Filmore East and West in the late sixties projecting landscapes of moving colors and images for countless musical acts of the time. It will tend to revive some of their original gems-their nearly forgotten relics of techniques. Utilizing archaic projectors such as 16mm, overhead and slides along with numerous colored gels, oils, food coloring, stencils and designs, artists will create an improvisational atmosphere conveying the mood and themes of the given space in conjunction and in rhythm with the DJ's and live musicians.

o Jerzy Kubina (performance Mar 9, 1-6 pm) - site specific performance/installation. A half-transparent screen is positioned in the corner. Two artists will be simultaneously placing different color tape on both sides of the screen. Artist behind the screen will use black tape, artist on the outside will use fluorescent tape. Illusion of communication as the basic idea of performance. Abstract language of form has different quality of expression and is creating a visual composition. There are two sources of sound: classical music (symphony) and Hitlerx{2019}s speech. There are two projectors facing each other and projecting two overlapping images of: landscape, marching Fascist army. Building contrast between following elements: visual, light and sound . Artist is attempting to build communication to show complex nature of this process.

o Morningwood (performance Mar 29, 2-5 pm) - video and musical performance. Morningwood is one of New Yorkx{2019}s finest undiscovered rock bands, founded in 2002 by Pedro Yanowitz (Hand of Doom, Money Mark, ex-Wallflowers). What was originally intended as a solo act, Pedro then called on his friends and lovers: the young, charismatic Chantal Claret, Timo Ellis (ex-Cibo Matto, Sean Lennon, and Yoko Ono), and Jappa Keenon (ex-Cibo Matto). Blending pop, rock, electro, and all other types of music too vague to be included, these long standing musical cuties provide an eclectic range of harmonics rarely heard in popular culture anymore.

o Scotto Iverson Mycklebust (performance Mar 21, 3-6 pm) - 'REV.' performance, computer composition for noise, sound effects and music. A real-time sound piece of the F-18 Fighter jet. The set-up includes; portable CD player, 2 - 4 speakers and/or headphones, visual image: the word "REV" as projected text on the wall. The projection to be determine, and will be based on museum site configuration, and audio/visual hardware availability. Additional speakers will be placed outside the museum's entrance in intervals of every 3 - 5 minutes.

o Rosalind Schneider (video installation Mar 16 - 30) - "Wave Transformations" seeks a new interpretation of nature through the creation of computer processed imagery. Images float in a darkened room, projected on a fourteen foot translucent white balloon. This waterscape visually extends into abstraction yet maintains the imprint of the real world. The ocean separates and reforms, merging form and color, reaching into surrealistic space. Images become linked passages of memory and recalled transformation. The Atlantic becomes a metaphor for creation, evolution and the regeneration of planet earth. The audio elements are a fusion of ocean sound, the voices of children at play, the calling of birds and the singing of whales. The mix was put through an echo chamber to generate reverberations that parallel the multiple layered video imagery.

o Wojtek Ulrich (video installation Mar 7 - 30) - THE BOAT is a three-meter hanging installation, a "lifeboat" whose body is constructed of dried dead fish. The frequent confusion of illusion and reality is highlighted by five video monitors facing upwards within the boat, showing underwater footage of fish swimming by. The viewer is challenged to separate illusion from experience. In VIDEO PROJECTION ON A BLOCK OF ICE, moving images are projected onto a surface which is continually melting away throughout the exhibit, showing pictures of a fetus within the womb on one side, contrasting with footage of battling pit bulls around the corner, and the viewer is left to deal with the combination of stimuli. The melting ice emphasizes the transient nature of the medium x{2013} the illusion lives on after the tool used to convey it is gone.

o Monika Weiss (performance Mar 8 and Mar 22, 1-6 pm) - Elytron (dusza i cialo to tylko dwa skrzydla) (Elytron (spirit and body are only two wings)) installation/performance. Elytron is a 6-hour site specific performance/installation. Moving progressively and intuitively around the floor, and using my entire figure as a metaphorical brush, I repeatedly leave and I arrive back to a sculpted vessel filled with dark fluid, until the entire canvas covering the floor becomes almost black. I leave sonic traces of the action creating a permeable, open zone of sound, while I move, curled up, within the self-imposed boundaries of canvas.

o Samuel Zakuto (video installation Mar 7 - 30) - 'Oh, Mother, The Soil Is Falling Over My Head' video on monitor and headphones, stands as an eulogy for Peace. Artist will present series of different portraits of Americans dressed as Israeli soldiers. The vision will be supported by mixed audio collage, created by Oliver Ray, taken from Hebrew and Arabic news broadcasts and music, combined with a noise-field of electric guitar.

Opening Event: Friday March 7, 2003. 5 - 8 PM
Closing Event: Saturday March 29, 2003. 5 - 8 PM

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