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VOLUMES FOR SOUND

NOVEMBER 18 DECEMBER 16

The sculptural installation Volumes for Sound combines immaterial, ephemeral and physical elements: sound, performance, sculpture and photography.

Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidsons Volumes for Sound combines immaterial, ephemeral and physical elements: sound, performance, sculpture and photography. These volumes can be encountered as objects that silently evoke the potential for sound, be played and reconfigured by performers using them for amplification, and appear in photographs of their various configurations. The exhibition presented at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter includes an ensemble of sculptures that also function as speakers, black and white photographs, and a performance. The funneling, folding and porting of sound derives from and requires physical structures. Electric guitar amplifiers and cabinets exploit a deliberately imperfect architecture for energy, while acting as totems delineating an ancestry of sound amplification. Volumes for Sound describes objects whose surface is coded with intent while acting as a method of enveloping and directing the content of sound delivered as acoustic energy. These nested forms descend from familiar objects which are manufactured independently and then drawn together as a result of relationships in domestic and architectural situations - such as the triangulation that occurs when a listener sits in a chair in front of a pair of stereo speakers. This triangulation has been collapsed into objects containing several variations for configuration. They can be encountered in spaces as forms that silently evoke the potential for sound, be played and reconfigured by performers using them for sound amplification, and appear in photographs of their various configurations, providing a record of these instances. The basic shapes realized in these forms and the surrounding photographs simultaneously attempt to access the staggered geometries of time-alignment within loudspeakers, and the pre-electrical harnessing of sound within architecture (archaeoacoustics). While electric guitar amplifiers and cabinets exploit the slurred voicings of phase cancellation and non-linear behaviors, time-alignment staggers the position of the individual loudspeakers to create a temporally coherent sound-field, reducing the slurring of sound. Black and white film renders an optical compression and distortion of tones akin to a guitar amplifiers desirable distortions in the audible realm. Optical compression in the processing of sound has historical roots in musical production, defining a relationship between sound and photography. During the opening day Three Planes of Silver (Melissa Dubbin, Aaron S. Davidson and Shawn Onsgard) and Alexander Rishaug will perform with the volumes at the opening reception held Nov 18th at 3 pm as part of Kurt Schwitters Day at the museum. The installation will be closed Saturday 1, December. Volumes for Sound is commissioned by Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, curated by Lasse Marhaug. Parts of the project are produced in collaboration with the Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, and the 2012 Reykjavik Arts Festival. Share on Facebook E-mail this Print this

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