Performer Andre Borges reminds a listener that, among our noisy environments, the human body makes sound. Through controlled manipulation of breath, Borges is able to produce a variety of sounds with his heart, throat and intestines. These sounds are heard via stethoscopic microphones. The sounds are then amplified and projected into a room, in which…
This is a performance work created by a sound artist and a choreographer. The rest is my on interpretation as the work’s description didn’t say much: The performers are like noise agents that travels around the city “harassing” passengers to their surprise. This reminds me that sounds and noises are ubiquitous and they happens anytime…
When I think about the phrase ‘noise machine’ I immediately think of some device, a physical device, not electronic. I feel there must be moving parts. 1. My first idea is a Kitchen implement device. I will begin with re-purposed kitchen utensils, perhaps an egg beater would be a nice start for a crank and…
It was a very interesting experience that I had when I saw this work in person last summer in MoMA. I would see it as a noise machine embedded in a wall, however is made of very organized sounds – very subtly adjusted to certain frequencies so that they span exactly 4 octaves along the…
I’m struck by the thoughtful way in which Ferrari et. al build a coherent sonic vocabulary of “tense sounds”, from what seem to be disparate samples. In some ways, this piece reminds me of Stockhausen’s “Kontakte”; most noticeably, they both make use of found sounds and shrill, high-pitched tones. But “Etude aux sons tendus” is…
It’s a huge installation, composed by 1629 earphones embedded in a 180 cm diameter wooden parabolic antenna and 24 electronic boards that distribute sound from a mp3 player to each earphone. I loved the idea of converting the “personal experience” to a “public experience”. I think it does a great job at showcasing how amazing…
Sound Material, Sound Art 