RECENT
Above images and audio are from the installation:
Horizons,
Sounds, and People : 2005 Thailand and Laos
Drawings,
audio, sculpture, and video from SE Asia January 17 - March 1 2005
April
11 - May 17, 2007
Spokane
Falls Community College Art Gallery
Spokane, WA US
Tannoy
Mixed media assemblage; found paper
ephemera, pedestal, wood, paint, cardboard, speakers, amplifier, compact
disc player, audio
79 x 18 x 18 in.
2007
Tannoy detail 1
Paper ephemera : found on streets,
receipts, maps, brochures etc.
Tannoy detail 2
Amplifier with sticker material cut
and placed over information
Southeast Asia : 3 Places
Field recordings gathered from Luang
Prabang Laos (rain), Bangkok Thailand (Magha Pujja Festival), Koh Payam
Thailand (Birds)
Three stereo sets of recorded locations playing simultaneously in this
space:
left gallery (speakers): nature
right gallery (speakers): towns and cities
center (from "Tannoy" sculpture) : voices, markets, festivals
each recording plays a one hour long sequence of different locations
Drawings : on
walls in background of "Tannoy" image & below image
- for more click on images
Vientiane Wires, Laos
ink on paper
6 x 8 in.
2005
Nong
Khai, Thailand, From Vientiane, Laos
ink on paper
6 x 8 in.
2005
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May
5, 2007 10:30 a.m.
Swamp,
Koh Payam, Thailand, 6:00 a.m. February 12, 2005
The
Seattle Art Museum celebrated it's grand opening of the newly expanded
downtown facility May 5-6, 2007, and was open for 35 hours straight. I
currently live right next to the Seattle Art Museum in the Diller hotel,
a building that houses many artists & musicians.
For 20 minutes, at 10:00 a.m., I played a field recording I gathered of
an early morning swamp in southern Thailand out the window on to First
Avenue, LOUD enough to be present amongst the sounds of the city. The
sounds of many critters, a beautiful orchestra of sorts, made of many
un-identifiable players, was bounced off of the buildings in the area.
I walked outside to listen for myself. No one really seemed to notice.
My wife Linda mentioned that a small group of chickadees came and hung
out in the tree next to the window, curious about these mysterious sounds
made in another language.
I
like to think of it as an
ephemeral time based audio painting, an ear photograph that I poured out
the window and bled into, with, around, and through all of the architectural
spaces downtown, blending with the sounds which occurred at that time.
Click here for a short video made of the setup
which delivered the sound : a laptop running pro-tools, a 1965 Roberts
tube amp, and a 1980 american acoustics lab speaker in the window (mono).