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adapted from the previous installation- this time using cameras and sensor data networked between 3 cpus to create an installation that uses the central grid as a score. Other phenomena: from audible, visual, and movement, affects the changes in the sound. The pieces in the grid are movable, the score was recolored and shifted periodically throughout the show.

Exhibition Curated by Matt Freedman for the FiveMyles Gallery in Brooklyn who generously shared the opening for a screening of my and Emma Houllihan's collaborative venture to reconstitute the No Place video exhibition I curated for Cheekwood 2 years ago.
http://www.fivemyles.org/current/

Here is the list of artists:
Kazuhiro Goshima (Japan) Fade Into White #4
Pavle Vukovic (Serbia)Run Rabbit Run
Bill Daniel ( USA), Sunset Scavenger
Melody Owen ( USA)
Harrell Fletcher ( USA), The Forbidden Zone
Kristin Lucas (USA) Lo-Fi Green Sigh
Charles Huntley Nelson and Kevin Sipp (USA) Mutropolis
Collectif-Fact (Switzerland) Reliefs
Magda Tothova (Slovakia) Lenin and the Maiden
Michelle Browne (Ireland) Chambermaids
Mark Clare (Ireland) The Perfect Human
Paul Murnaghan (Ireland) Light From a Dead Star
Ted Davee, (USA) CrowFilm,
Dixon Myers, Chris Stone, Natalie Baxter, Greg Pond (USA and Jamaica), The
Ambassador
Krista Connerly, USA, untitled (romantic mountains and sea with horse mask)

Fugitive Projects Begins a New 60 second Video Project
information is at this link:
http://fugitiveprojects.com/video-2009/

Reverse Angle
Exhibition I assembled from an open call for the Cheekwwod Museum in Nashville October 11 2008 - February 22 2009













Blogreader by BanGuel Han

Artists Include:
Keith Sullivan- New York
Natalie Frigo- New York
BanGuel Han- Detroit
Bjorn Erik Haugen- Oslo
Alexander Reyna- Miami
Timothy Hutchings- New York

up coming...
end of august























3 solo shows
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Hans Christoph Steiner will run a free Pure Data workshop on Saturday 08.30
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Stephen Vitiello will be doing a sound installation in the old St Luke's Chapel in conjunction with his show
I will post details of the hours the sound installation will be open to the public after the opening on 08.29 very soon

FM Post for the Grand Mal, Ian Curtis, and all Mountains Under Erasure

new work for a show at Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, another link for ZG here

thoughts on reading the Society of the Spectacle in Cairo...

I recently returned from Cairo, showing some videos and jurying media art prizes for the ministry of culture
more on this coming soon...

When the Lion Eats the Dragon, Totem for Mumford
steel, rabbit skins, t-shirts


this is a few years old but had yet to make it to the web....

celinas- ep by Kevin McCoy
I made the first track with Kevin using some PD patches we wrote and recorded in July
cover image made by Kevin

download here:
celinas

A portable sound station with 3, 4 -channel sound pieces generated with Pure Data are orchestrated by 2 internally-networked cpus housed in the wooden sculpture. The sounds generate an alternating expanding and compressing sonic landscape with various kinds of manipulated waveforms through granular synthesis and other techniques. The code is projected. The sensors and an Arduino microcontroller in the wooden sculpture respond to the way the sound behaves in each space and provide input that affects the behavior of the software and the sound. The piece can be connected to the internet and operated remotely.













Installed at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts

a lot of thanks goes to Collin Asmus for his help. His invitation to show there got me moving on this sooner than I would have otherwise and without his help it wouldn't have gotten installed.

Thanks also goes to Archie Stapleton and Lauren Busey for their help in the studio

software contributions in Pure Data come from Hans Chrtistoph Steiner, Kevin McCoy, and Dan Trueman

installation from show at the Zeitgeist Gallery last summer with Bjorn Sterri

A Known Distraction
bronze, steel, and paint

freedom from want freedom from need

freedomfromwant & freedomfromneed- sculptures made from concrete statues, welded steel and vibrating motors controlled by Pure Data via a microcontroller. The motors cause vibrations and slight swaying motion throughout the steel structure. these vibrations translate to sound as the steel plate beneath the statue functions as a resonator with the floor. Images of the Pure Data patches that control the motors are below, software contributions by Hans Christoph Steiner

one whose life was writ in water...


john keats' birthday on this day in 1795

sound installations in the Burren

While on a residency in Western Ireland I was able to work in a places that allowed me the opportunity to learn more about sound as a sculptural medium. In these places I was able to use the unique aspects of the architecture as tool for affecting sound



Sound Installation at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughn, Ireland
Four sine waves with frequencies within 4-6 hertz of each other are released into
the room. The amplitude of each is controlled to vary rapidly, in specific patterns. Moveable walls create baffles for the sound to direct their movement. Because the frequencies are similar, the sound waves seem to combine and change shape when they collide. This can be heard and felt as they move through the space. The 8-channel speaker module was built for these projects.


sound installation at the burren college of art studios
code below:





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Sound Installation in Newton Castle, Ballyvaughn,
County Clare, Ireland, 2007
An eight-channel sound piece was installed through the four floors of the tower castle. Two speakers were placed in each room; one in the middle of the floor and the other directly above in the ceiling. This arrangement created a sonic pole that pierced the building. Sounds panned between the speakers and were delivered in such a way to affect one’s sense of the size of each room and the location of the sounds throughout the building. Each floor of the castle was built from differnt materials and had varying structures and shapes which transformed the sounds as they moved from room to room. Sensors were used to generate “behaviors” within the composition. When certain amplitudes or frequencies were detected in a certain place then the sound patterns are changed in response by the cpu- it can listen to itself and respond to its own behaviors.