am i trying
2019
~ 20 minutes
sound performance, steel hex rod, plywood, tube tvs, cassette tapes, tape players, mixer, headphones, video, plants, rugs, lights, cast iron singing bowl, copper chimes
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my senior thesis at miad; a sound playground.
there is a general structure to the performance, though it is primarily improvised.
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the audio through the headphones consists of two sets of tapes -
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(eight) tape loops, each playing a different pitch of a c major scale
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(five) five-minute tapes of myself, iterating on different melodies.
each tape is one continuous take
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gallery night performance
there are three audio tracks playing here -
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the documenting camera's recording of the room
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three tape players, running through a mixer and into an audio recorder
(this is playing through the headphones) -
the background video, which is synchronized with the tv below the mixer
post script
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after some mishaps with transportation, these big boys ended up on the free section of craigslist. the largest one is living in the yard seen above. i believe this is a b&b in merrill park, owned by a lovely woman named sherrie with a red pickup truck.
i am pretty sure wilhelm has the next largest one, and i have the smallest (the only one that fits through a doorway, or in a car).
the rest are out in the world.
i hope to meet them again
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more performance videos to come