Tag: small sounds

Small Sounds are the result of various sounding strategies applied to objects or captured from sources the natural sound of which isn’t readily perceivable by the naked ear. a feature of these pieces is the impression of sound being heard from the perspective of the probed sound source. to hear these sounds transducers of different kinds are used the same way a microscope is used to discover fascinating features of the real world too small for us to detect without it. such is the case of a piece like Sound Consumption. also a Tracing, the piece is defined by the use of a phono-cartridge to amplify the successive audible stream transformations in the life of a burning wooden match. Variations on a Shoestring on the other hand is not really a tracing because of the compositional element of writing words. what makes it a “small sound” is the sound of the pen rubbing against the shoelace. the variations occur in the mind with the realization that each time the word “variation” is written, the sounds produced display discernible differences between them—highlighted in some performances and on the video version of the piece—by the use of a slight amount of signal processing different for each variation. meeting David Dunn helped amplify my limited understanding of the vast techniques available for monitoring all kinds of situations on land and water

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    SOUND

    A 42-page catalog documenting SOUND, the 2009 exhibition curated and designed by Gustavo Matamoros for The Bass Museum of Art.

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    Small Sounds Series

    An evolving series of works that finds ways to listen from closer within things, using contact microphones and other transducers to reveal hidden activity in objects, materials, places and everyday encounters.

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    Coincidence

    Snapping shrimp in Biscayne Bay and shrimp frying in a pan meet inside an elevator bay transformed into a dense, waterlike acoustic threshold.

  • An illuminated empty tabletop stands before two black directional speakers in the darkened gallery at the Bass Museum of Art.

    Small Sounds
    On a Table Top

    Small Sounds on a Table Top uses directional sound to create the illusion of small, invisible objects inhabiting and moving across the surface of an empty illuminated table.

  • Sewing machines mounted on sculptural wooden resonators in Duane Brant’s interactive installation Sew Organ.

    SOUND
    A Sound Art Exhibition

    A museum exhibition composed across space and time, SOUND brought together multichannel, autonomous and interactive works while addressing the problem of presenting sound art within shared galleries.

  • Interior of Mosquera Orthodontics showing a dental treatment area and the microphone stand used to document Small Sounds in the Workplace.

    Small Sounds in the Workplace

    Six independent sources distribute Small Sounds throughout a working orthodontic clinic, where random audible events mingle with the ordinary sounds of the workplace.

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    Music on a Budget

    An evolving collection of concise event scores that turns limited means into compositional material, inviting music to emerge from simple actions, inexpensive objects and the resources at hand.