THE GLOBE + MANUAL EARDRUMS (2013)
This video documentation by Knut Remond shows various excerpts from my installation at ohrenhoch sound gallery in Berlin in December 2013. The documentation starts with a view from the street looking into the window of the gallery (complete with street sounds). The upstairs silent video projection/sculpture is a collaboration between myself and Tony Flackett called "Graticule." This is shown from outside the gallery through the storefront window and from within. Simultaneously my internet sound work "The Globe" (world premiere), featuring live vocal contributions from all continents on earth, is being streamed live through speakers in the storefront gallery. I am processing and mixing the voices in real time with MaxMSP in Boston Massachusetts, and streaming the live signal over the internet for both an online audience and into the gallery. Phone signals and low bit-rate streaming are limited to a narrow upper frequency bandwidth, and this compliments the basement installation, which is limited to a low frequency band. In the basement is my installation "Manual Eardrums" (starting at 2:45 on the video) which is about feeling sound vibrations through a balloon. Visitors to "Manual Eardrums" are required to wear foam earplugs so that they can focus on feeling the mutating sound patterns projected by the large bass speakers in the basement. A low tone continuously very slowly sweeps from 100 to 150 Hz in the downstairs.
Real-time performers (via phone) in two 3-hour performances over the two weekends of "The Globe" were Sam Ashley (Austria), Jill Burton (Florida), Joonyung Choi (Korea), Awomadah Fig (Australia), Hala Gabr (Egypt), Mohamed Gouda (Egypt), Cole Ingraham (China), Heather Dea Jennings (Brazil), Julie Katch (Antarctica), Kyoko Kitamura (New York), Anna Liebzeit (Australia), Andrea Pensado (Massachusetts). Takashi Matsudaira (Japan) participated in the dress rehearsal, a recording of which was included on the first day of the installation.
Please see the Manual Eardrums page for more information about this work.
Real-time performers (via phone) in two 3-hour performances over the two weekends of "The Globe" were Sam Ashley (Austria), Jill Burton (Florida), Joonyung Choi (Korea), Awomadah Fig (Australia), Hala Gabr (Egypt), Mohamed Gouda (Egypt), Cole Ingraham (China), Heather Dea Jennings (Brazil), Julie Katch (Antarctica), Kyoko Kitamura (New York), Anna Liebzeit (Australia), Andrea Pensado (Massachusetts). Takashi Matsudaira (Japan) participated in the dress rehearsal, a recording of which was included on the first day of the installation.
Please see the Manual Eardrums page for more information about this work.