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Call for “Found” Sounds
by Melissa Bailey | Mar 31, 2006 3:40 pm
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In this barren Chapel Street lot, silence is broken by the habitual rush of buses and booming stereos. Two artists want to rig the space with speakers and fill it with other sounds — found sounds, collected from New Haveners. So they’re putting out a call for contributions — musical, spoken, overheard, invented — to be gathered before the exhibit goes up in May.
The exhibit is the second of four to fill the lot, whose exhibits are sponsored in part by Artspace as a way to liven the vacant place with interactive, urban art. A panel including gallery director Denise Markonish chose this unusual soundshow to expand the space’s uses.
“When a lot of people think of public art, they think of sculpture,” she said. “We wanted to stretch people’s ideas about what public art can be.”
Micah Silver, a sound artist from upstate NY, and Colby Brown, a transportation planner living in New Haven, will design and install the project in the space on May 9. The two are tech-savvy young men who met at Wesleyan University. The show will run 24 hours a day for six months.
A lattice of speakers strung in the air will spit back sounds in response to surveillance cameras that track pedestrians’ movements. Each walker’s pattern, through a computer database, will prompt a different medley of sound. But they want the interactive piece to be localized with New Haven-sprung sounds. That’s where you come in.
“Please share your ears with the community,” the artists plea in a press release. “Sounds of all imaginations and persuasions are welcome and each will be used… They can be environmental, conversational, rehearsal, imaginary, the historical, heretical, the noisy, political, polemical, the gorgeous, referential and the purple, or any sound that gives you reason to pause.”
Sounds can be submitted on CD, tape, or digitally, in person, by mail or by email. Contributors are encouraged to submit their names and the context in which they imagine the sound. Those who include mail/email addresses will receive a limited edition DVD documenting the project.
Direct mail or personal deliveries to: The Phoenix c/o Artspace, 50 Orange St., New Haven, CT 06510.
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