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Archive for the ‘Sound’ Category

Mt Greenwood Sound Sculpture

Mt. Greenwood Park. Performance, Audio Co-Production. Chicago, 2008.

This piece was a lot of fun – a performance to inaugurate Chicago Sculpture Works’ piece, Sound Sculpture. The inauguration of the new park and the sculpture itself was capped by a performance by myself, Jacob Worley-Hood, and some percussionists from around Chicago.

Jacob and I co-produced the audio recording for the event, which is the audio track for the video clip below. The performance was a structured improvisation created by the performers in the days before the inauguration.

Posted in Features, Performance, Sound

Bride of Acacias

Chopin Theatre. Design / Video / Sound. Chicago, 2006

A whilrwind of a one-woman play, this biographic piece traveled around Iran and to Europe and back, following the life of legendary Iranian film-maker Forough Farrokhzad.

Working with source video brought from Iran by the playwright and my own thematic motion graphics, the designer and I came up with a model that would work both as a scenic backdrop and as a metaphor for a woman who often looked at the world through the barriers of her identity.

{ photos by gretchen werner }

Posted in Features, Sound, Visual

Stride Natty Stride

This is one of the first in a series I’m working on for solo piano, adapting stride playing to a catalogue of reggae songs. Both feature a familiar emphasis on the two and the four, with some walking elements in between. A cover of the Bob Marley song, “Ride Natty Ride”. Recorded on my living-room upright.

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Lament Of The Water Bug

Inns of Virginia. Annual Exhibition “I Mean, C’mon Fluff My Pillow.” Installation: “Lament of the Water
Bug.” 2006, Richmond, VA.

This looped audio installation (including the accompanying portrait, framed on the sink) was a narrative piece from the perspective of that lowly water-closet denizen, the water bug. The exhibition was a series of installations that took place throughout the famous inns of Virginia, with various pieces occupying various rooms; my room was a bathroom. So, this was site-specific in a way, and more general in a way, as well.

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Jesus Saves Burger King

This piece was created as a musical reaction to the pollution of signage that accosts our eyes when we walk around a big city. After awhile, it all becomes a mosiac, with some interesting juxtapositions, and this work represents an attempt to render that jumble sonically.

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