Years is a sound installation for modified record player that examines the disparity between the experience of time passing and time as an objective quantity. The piece uses a turntable to “play” a vinyl-Lp-sized cross section of a tree. A camera fitted with a microscopic lens replaces the needle on the record player’s tone arm. DuringContinue reading “Years”
Genre Archives
Summer 2012
Build Your Own Tone Generator
Eric Leonardson & Steve Barsotti. Rarebit.
Leonardson and Barsotti have both fashioned their own peculiar sonic contraptions that provide all manner of congruently peculiar noises over the span of this disc. Each track encompasses its own world, constructed of noises that are both highly physical and also difficult to trace back to an actual source. You can almost feel the itchyContinue reading “Eric Leonardson & Steve Barsotti. Rarebit.”
How To Make A Fuzzbox
Binatone Galaxy
Binatone Galaxy is an installation for used cassette players that looks on their obsolescence not as an ending, but as an opportunity to reconsider their functional potential. Superseded by digital audio players as recording and playback devices, cassette players become, in this work, instruments in their own right. The piece takes irreverent delight in disposingContinue reading “Binatone Galaxy”
Cléo Palacio-Quintin
“My work as a composer is eminently solitary. I feel like an island, but each island is a world, and in turn I am composed of these many worlds.” This is how Montreal composer, hyper-flute inventor, and performer Cléo Palacio-Quintin describes her work. Introspective and speaking in metaphor, she appears more apt to read aloudContinue reading “Cléo Palacio-Quintin”
Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony
Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony (2009–10) is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip housed in a CD jewel case. 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it is a complete electronic circuit that literally performs its music once it is turned on. Programmed by the artist and assembled byContinue reading “Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony”
