Sound Research

"Ultrafield, Fieldwork for the 16 channel Ambisonic instalation, MOMA. August 2013 Recordings for the project Ultrafield has been done in several locations, like Kaliningrad in Russia, the Göta river near Gøteborg, in Madeira, Portugal, Oslo, Ranvika by Larvik, in the Molde fjord, Istanbul, London and New York both under water, in air and of ultrasound made by bats. Additional recordings specifically for the piece, recorded at sites near Oslo:"

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"The Manhattan Rhythm Machine is an interactive generative beat maker. Loops for each instrument are represented with cut up segments of a circle. These are moved through a two dimensional space of rhythms with axes of edginess and density which are mapped to rhythms through a beat hierarchy derived from how off-beat each position in the bar is."

"In this short documentary, filmmaker/media artist Jim Blashfield talks about his 7 screen sound and video installation created for the Brightwater Environmental Education Center. Commissioned by 4 Culture."

"Noise is not the most important problem in the world. Compared to the disasters of famine, war, and global climate change, the existence of "unwanted sound" hardly counts as a problem at all. It rarely emerges as a public issue in countries struggling with the worst forms of poverty and violence. So far as I am aware, there is no Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise in the cities and villages of Afghanistan and the Congo. "

"Brian Eno once said that "repetition is a form of change," but Basinski's tape loops physically revise that and bring the idea back as "repetition is change.""

"n array of motion sensitive modules is installed along a section of the trail. When someone walks past, the modules emit sounds which supplement the sounds occurring naturally in the environment. The sound samples are arranged along the path in a sequence which proceeds from the most "natural" to the most "man-made". The effect varies depending upon which way one happens to be moving along the path. At the "natural" end, it is not clear whether what one is hearing is part of the installation or part of the (natural) landscape."

"Really Good Elevator Music is an experiment that explores the potential of sound to stimulate social interaction and community building in the strikingly diverse Philadelphia neighborhood of Chinatown North/Callowhil, Philadelphia (8th to Broad, Vine to Spring Garden)"

"If, as the sound artist Stephan Moore likes to say, the laptop has become the 21st-century folk instrument, then the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah has propelled itself to the forefront of that development, commissioning and bringing to its 90-acre campus an exhibition of sound art featuring 10 works by 11 laptop-wielding artists."

"Sway is a space where sound and physical form meet. The environment reflects the palpable experience of listening to music, in which many small parts work together to create a larger whole. When visitors become immersed in the mass of translucent reeds that form the geometry of the room, the sound composition reacts at the location of disturbance: individual sonic textures are revealed and distorted, unifying the experience of physical and aural textural breakdown. "

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"Montefiore Hospital in the UK teamed up with ambient music artist Brian Eno in April 2013 to create a Quiet Room where patients can find relaxation and calm. Eno designed a light and sound installation for the room and for the reception area, including an original soundtrack of soothing instrumental tunes. Once the room has had a few inhabitants, there are plans to examine whether the patients who have sought solace there exhibit any beneficial physiological changes."

"Human industry is now noisy enough to drown out whale songs. What would happen in the ocean if we went quiet? "

"Pressure Sequence started out as a question: Dancing is body language at it's purest. But can you transform, translate this language? What happens if you strip away the visual layer? Is it possible to create a virtual dance, just out of sound? Does dance survive this transmission? Do we create new images? Is it still dance? Do we move along?"

"Space is the place. Again. And SoundCloud is now a place you can find sounds from the US government space agency, NASA. In addition to the requisite vocal clips ("Houston, we've had a problem" and "The Eagle has landed"), you get a lot more. There are rocket sounds, the chirps of satellites and equipment, lightning on Jupiter, interstellar plasma and radio emissions. And in one nod to humanity, and not just American humanity, there's the Soviet satellite Sputnik (among many projects that are international in nature)."

"n Pursuit of Silence is a meditative film about silence, our relationship with sound, and the impact of noise on our lives. In our race towards modernity, amidst all the technological innovation and the rapid growth of our cities, silence is now quickly passing into legend. From the Desert Fathers of the third century AD who became the model for Christian monasticism to John Cage's seminal work 4'33" which would go onto inspire a generation of artists, humankind has had a long fascination with silence. In Pursuit of Silence will be the first comprehensive look at this topic whose many dimensions lie at the heart of so much of human progress. Offering audiences a contemplative cinematic experience, the sights and sounds of this film will work its way through frantic minds, into the quiet spaces of hearts, and help shape a new vision of being."

"Conversations with Odin is a sound installation that presents the remarkable and seldom-heard phenomenon of ravens gathering to roost."

"Artist Julianne Swartz presents a sound installation, Digital Empathy, which greets High Line visitors with a variety of messages. At some sites, computer-generated voices speak messages of concern, support, and love, intermingled with pragmatic information. In other sites, those same digitized voices recite poetry and sing love songs to park visitors."