Unsilently

September - October 2005 @ The Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams MA. This group exhibition featured a variety of audio works composed of sounds derived from "silent" spaces (i.e. the hiss of a blank tape, the hum of an empty room, intricate artifacts, occasional crackles). The sound recordings and compositions were presented together throughout the galleries of the Contemporary Artists Center: darkened spaces with only minimal light for navigation purposes. Sound isolation between the pieces was not the intent of the show, consequently an entire environment of sound is created. The pieces, comprised of backround "noise" (the natural hum of time passing, crackles, hisses, pops) , provided background noise for eachother, and the bleed between the sources created a complex composition. "Unsilently" was an experiment, an accident, and chance for 'silence' to be heard.

Featured Artists:

Steve Bradley, Che Chen, Chop Shop, Joshua Churchill, Joe Colley, Cria Cuervos, Frans De Waard, Blake Edwards, Brent Fariss, David Gross, Benjamin Gwilliam, Mike Hallenbeck, Jeff Jerman, Gintas K, Jason Kahn, Nick Knouf, Labycz/Spirkut Duo, Stephane Leonard, Roel Meelkop, Thomas Moore, My Fun, Matthew Sansom, Svstriate, David Wolf, Kelly Xintaris , Nick Zammuto

Exhibition Images :

(closer in)

Artists playing with the idea of scale and attentive inspection create works which require the viewer to come closer and investigate.

September - October 2004 @ The Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams MA. This exhibition was co-curated with Hezzie Phillips.

Featured Artists:

Michael Branca, Ellie Brown, Kathy Desmond, Aaron Dysart, Kim Eggleston-Kraus, Empty Set, Samantha Fields, Nina Höchtl, Heather Johnson, David Lachman, Adam Lampton, Sharon Molloy, Andrea Morris,Lauren O'Neal, Sean O'Brien, Adrienne Outlaw, Melody Owen, Joanne Pasila, Lisa Perez, Nicole Peskin, Jessica Pezalla, Emily Puthoff, Sarah Stolar, Sally Szwed, Ruth Tabancay, Kristine Thompson, Cody Trepte, Jeff Williams, Michael Zachary

Exhibition Images :

60" somewhere / 60" somewhere else

Morse coded words/tones were composed into several channels of audio and recorded onto a set of cds. Many big box stores, such as Walmart, Best Buy, Kmart, Target, Circuit City, have sample electronic merchandise out and readily available to insert and play cds (cd players, boom boxes, dvd players...). The morse code message/composition disks are be placed in those devices (each disk had a minute of silence to provide get away time). In almost every case so far, what resulted was a curiosity, an exciment of discovery, and a shift away from the often dazed mode of consumption.

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+ 60" somewhere [mp3s soon]
+ 60" somewhere else [mp3s soon]