Touch Tones: Sound/Image Works & Performance

Joining the two poles designated as music and noise is the not–so–straight line called sound. Sound artists can seek out degrees along this line, or abandon the straight and narrow in favor of a recombinant realm of found sound. Tonight's program stresses the latter through journeys into hitherto unknown sonorities. Naturally images play a large part as both source of sound and sounding board. In Scott Arford's performance Static Room 2, the video signal projected in all its disintegration provides the core material for what devolves aurally into "shredding static." Steve Roden's Cosmic Dancer (2001, 22 mins), in which still images of biological specimens are reanimated as a jittery display, uses the first note of several cover versions of T–Rex's "Cosmic Dancer" to construct a gnarly sonic counterpoint. silt, here represented by Keith Evans and Christian Farrell, will grace us with a "kymatics vigil," multiplanar, intensive mosaics of film, video, and sound integration. For his performance, Loren Chasse will assemble a "footpath" of natural objects-rocks, branches, sand, and leaves–which he will gesturally amplify. This will be followed by a videowork of a previously prepared wooded walk incorporating Chasse's object–auralities. Eleanor Harwood will be the mixmeister.

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