Melissa Dubbin&Aaron S. Davidson
dal 17/11/2012 al 15/12/2012
Segnalato da
17/11/2012
Melissa Dubbin&Aaron S. Davidson
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden
Volumes for Sound. Artists combine immaterial, ephemeral and physical elements: sound, performance, sculpture and photography. The funneling, folding and porting of sound derives from and requires physical structures.
curated by Lasse Marhaug
Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson’s Volumes for Sound combines immaterial, ephemeral and physical elements: sound, performance, sculpture and photography. These volumes can be encountered as objects that silently evoke the potential for sound, be played and reconfigured by performers using them for amplification, and appear in photographs of their various configurations.
The exhibition presented at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter includes an ensemble of sculptures that also function as speakers, black and white photographs, and a performance.
The funneling, folding and porting of sound derives from and requires physical structures. Electric guitar amplifiers and cabinets exploit a deliberately imperfect architecture for energy, while acting as totems delineating an ancestry of sound amplification. Volumes for Sound describes objects whose surface is coded with intent while acting as a method of enveloping and directing the content of sound delivered as acoustic energy.
These nested forms descend from familiar objects which are manufactured independently and then drawn together as a result of relationships in domestic and architectural situations - such as the triangulation that occurs when a listener sits in a chair in front of a pair of stereo speakers. This triangulation has been collapsed into objects containing several variations for configuration. They can be encountered in spaces as forms that silently evoke the potential for sound, be played and reconfigured by performers using them for sound amplification, and appear in photographs of their various configurations, providing a record of these instances.
The basic shapes realized in these forms and the surrounding photographs simultaneously attempt to access the staggered geometries of time-alignment within loudspeakers, and the pre-electrical harnessing of sound within architecture (archaeoacoustics). While electric guitar amplifiers and cabinets exploit the slurred voicings of phase cancellation and non-linear behaviors, time-alignment staggers the position of the individual loudspeakers to create a temporally coherent sound-field, reducing the slurring of sound.
Black and white film renders an optical compression and distortion of tones akin to a guitar amplifiers desirable distortions in the audible realm. Optical compression in the processing of sound has historical roots in musical production, defining a relationship between sound and photography.
During the opening day Three Planes of Silver (Melissa Dubbin, Aaron S. Davidson and Shawn Onsgard) and Alexander Rishaug will perform with the volumes at the opening reception held Nov 18th at 3 pm as part of Kurt Schwitters Day at the museum.
The installation will be closed Saturday 1, December.
Opening: 18 November
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Sonja Henies vei 31-Hovikodden
Hours: Tue-Thu 11-19 Fri-Sun 11-17
Free admission