created for the Common Tone Arts Festival, 2023
NOTICE | LISTEN | SEE | SMELL | MOVE | BREATHE
AUDIO: pipes, pebbles, glass bottles, sticks, screws, charcoal, voices, pinecones, water, wind,….
VISUAL: two 4’3’ wood panels covered with gesso and paper, sheets, string, bottles, charcoal, pebbles, screws
This installation took place at Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute in Moscow, ID.
EXHIBITION NOTES:
You
Being
Here
Today is pretty amazing if you think about it.
You had to get out of bed. You had to get dressed. You had to drive or
walk or bike. You had to find PCEI. You had to want to be here. Etc.
You know the rest.
But Here You Are.
We invite you to join us on a sound exploration of Being
and being Here.
When an object such as a pipe or a bottle is struck it begins to vibrate. As it vibrates, it bumps into the air molecules around it, which then bump into the air molecules around them and so on, and these reverberations eventually reach your ears.
We have captured sounds using the same instruments of pipes, bottles, pebbles and screws that are before you today, to create an interactive soundscape. Use the tools you find to explore the sounds and textures of the space around you. Connect with the sounds in your ears; the light and color in your eyes; the objects in your hands or under your fingers.
We are capturing your aural and visual explorations today as a moment of you being Here. Your marks will be integrated in an infinitely growing community of sight and sound—
all unique, and yet together across all audiences in their own specific moments of time where they were here.
Most of all, we invite you to be Here.
And we are glad that You Are.
“Use the tools you find to explore the sounds and textures of the space around you. Lean into abstraction & unfamiliar gestures.”
