The nature of human perception is fascinatingly unclear. That so much of what we experience we experience almost unknowingly, taking in the textures of the world without clearly perceiving their construction from thousands of tiny strands is essential to the apparent ineffability of our surroundings. The heightened ambiguities of sleep and its perimeters introduce interesting […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2009, audio, fixed media, tape
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Scenes from Babel uses recordings of the human voice almost exclusively, exploring the sound material’s potential for the contrasting of a natural (but seemingly artificial), interior, oral space with an artificial (but seemingly natural), exterior, environmental space. The recordings are of the story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1 – 9) in ten languages and I […]
By Chris
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Posted in Withdrawn, Works
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Also tagged 2010, audio, fixed media
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For a while now, I have been interested in the edges of things: where things start and stop being, where they vanish, where one idea bleeds into another. This piece attempts to combine found sounds and streams of ‘noise’ that we carry with us in the background of our lives — radios, pop music, conversations, remembered places — only […]
My first tape piece, Books of Moses approaches issues of creativity and the collective consciousness. I wanted to examine the process by which symbols are assimilated and re-used by cultures and the piece develops opening material towards a new place unmistakably rooted in the past. Sound sources included carriers of semantic data such as books, […]
By Chris
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Posted in Withdrawn, Works
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Also tagged 2008, fixed media
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