Videos Worth Streaming: Robot orchestra made of ping pong balls and glasses (engadget.com). … And a band whose instruments are a Nintendo DS (with Electroplankton) and two handheld Apple products (dhadm.com). … Music made only from sounds from the Windows OS (youtube.com — easily six or seven people sent this link to me separately, and [...]
Much sound art is fixed for its presentation in a gallery, but that doesn’t mean improvisation isn’t occasionally called for. Last Saturday, December 1, was the closing reception for David Kwan’s Emergence exhibit at Mission 17 in San Francisco (mission17.org). I dropped by to take in the two works in that dark room one last [...]
Not every work of video art is a work of sound art — not even every video work that takes music as its subject, such as a piece in medium-agnostic artist Bozidar Brazda’s current exhibit, titled Beat Meat Table Eat, at the gallery Bortolami in Manhattan.
What suggests this Brazda video, titled “Line Jerk-Off” (2007), is [...]
Two artists whose work I’d written about recently here on Disquiet.com have contacted me via email with additional information about their art. That information has now been appended to the original reviews.
Ian Burns, whose “Ice (Version 3): Ode to Lady Jane” was exhibited as part of a group show at the Spencer Brownstone gallery in [...]
In a dark room curtained off almost entirely from the world, the six video screens of the exhibit Emergence comprise two different “video + sound” installations by the artist David Kwan. It’s showing at Mission 17, a gallery in San Francisco, through November 24.
Five of those screens belong to Kwan’s “Terminus” (2007). Four small ones, [...]
Quick Notes from the World of Sound Art: (1) I missed the piece “Harmonic Field,” by Christopher Badger, which had been on display at the gallery Silverman in San Francisco — it was part of an exhibit, titled Double Resonator, that also included work by Robert Smithson and La Monte Young (images in the archives [...]
News, Quick Links, Good Reads: (1) Art by Orb/KLF member James Cauty was removed by municipal workers in Brighton, England, when it was mistaken for graffiti (nytimes.com, ink-d.co.uk). … (2) The Guardian on noise abatement and urban soundscapes: “Visual aesthetics are a major part of the planning system with strong guidelines determining what is acceptable [...]
Not all sound art makes sound. Not all art about sound is sound art — a cubist take on a guitar, for example, may not quite constitute a formal comment on music. But Diana Al-Hadid’s “Portal to a Black Hole,” a massive freestanding sculpture that stood at the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in Manhattan until August [...]
Two compact Roland speakers sit toward the top of the blank white walls. The speakers are set diagonally across from each other in the back room of the Spencer Brownstone Gallery in lower Manhattan. A voice, female and soft, doesn’t fill the space so much as lightly accent it. It sings, “Sail on … sailor [...]
The Galapagos performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last night played host to two hours of installations, video shorts and music performances. I caught the L Line out from Manhattan with a friend. We went for the music (Bit Shifter on software-controlled Game Boys; Jamie Allen, pictured below, on a home-made noise-box), but happily stayed for [...]