While in England last week I had the rare chance to see/hear an installation work by Jonathan Coleclough. It was initially created for a sound exhibition he co-organized in 2006 at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire. The piece is designed for a specific site, an actively used greenhouse that is divided […]
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From June 11th to June 18th, 2000 I made a short Balkan tour, performing in three cities. My performances included a collage of live and pre-recorded sounds. A simple installation of resonating wires provided a bed of rich drones on which live acoustic sounds and pre-recorded material was layered. The […]
Resonance Ensemble is an exercise in physical interaction with material objects, challenging human perception of acoustic phenomenon and guiding peoples intuition of group dynamics. This type of sound action? is carried out in a workshop context with a group of 10-20 people. The participants of the ensemble take everyday common […]
Kunst.ee magazine 26 page 'sound art' special edited by John Grzinich, English version and track info on the CD.
Much effort has gone into studying forms and patterns common in the natural world. From the early formation of the Golden Ratio, to the contemporary complex algorithms of genetics and the fractals of the Mandelbrot Set, similar patterns have been achieved through mathematical abstraction. However, there are still questions that […]
(what is) Noise induced order? Bringing order out of chaos can require a little disorder. Adding variability and disorder to certain complex systems can help tame their chaotic behavior. This unexpected conclusion could require artists and engineers to take a new look at the operation and interaction of both natural […]
I just got back from a week long trip to Russia to give two performances, one at the Experimental Sound Gallery in St. Petersburg and one at the DOM Cultural Center in Moscow (venues pictured above). All was organized by Dmitry of the fine label and distribution service Monochrome Vision […]
This is a partial list of some of the items I’ve received through trades over the last 6 months or so. I’ll be slowly making my way through the stack and posting my feedback, but probably more after the summer. Even then, I suspect more will be coming in… Extract […]
For many years now one of the main ways I’ve been able to get releases by other artists is to share through trades, usually with my own releases. For the most part this is a great system not only because it helps me hear what others are doing, but also […]
French sound artist Yannick Dauby (along with Wan-Shuen Tsai) are in the MoKS residency for the month of June. I asked Yannick to write down some of his reflections on field recording and the sound environment he found in Estonia: — Listening notes, Eesti mid-June 2007 (additional descriptions with sound […]
June is one of my favorite times of year in Estonia. Besides the fact that it is the height of springtime and the countryside is alive with natural activity, there is also constant light because of the high latitude. There is a unique form of light that exists in the […]
Last spring I started to document my sound recording activities with a video camera (many times recording the audio directly to the camera). This material eventually developed into the Location Sound Films project. After collecting a wide amount of material from field recordings, natural phenomenon, found objects and site-specific activity, […]
Recently I discovered The Freesound Project and was immediately inspired to upload and share sounds (which is what the site is all about). I find that the site is well designed and easy to use. According to the site: “The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of […]
Last weekend I took part in the annual Observatori Festival in Valencia, Spain. The excellent program of experimental music, “About: Blank” was curated by Ruben Garcia. As I arrived rather late on Friday evening I missed most of the opening program. The Saturday evening program included Dave Phillips from Switzerland […]
I spent a week in Istanbul and took the opportunity to record some of the music I heard. This was my first visit to Istanbul, but hopefully not the last. The city is one of the most vibrant and dynamic places I have ever been. The first recording was made […]
As many know I have collaborated for more than a decade with Seth Nehil and what follows is a collection of impressions upon listening to his most recent release for Alluvial Records. I’ve been big on text the last few years… There are no liner notes on this release, no […]
This has been a question for me ever since I thought to start a “blog” (I hate this word. What ever happened to journals?). I’m rather curious to find other artists working with sound (either as primary or secondary media) who are interested to discuss their work in ways that […]
I have used contact mics throughout the years in various aspects of my sound work from live performance and studio instrumentation, to making recordings in the field. I use them for purposes of uncovering the “interior” acoustic properties of materials particularly with metal objects and wires, making the nature or […]
Pushing the Medium was an event concept I created to bridge a concentrated collaborative residency and public presentations in nearby towns. The first edition took place at MOKS and Tartu in October 2004. Pushing the Medium 2 took place in Nodar, Portugal in September 2006. There are far too many […]
welcome to my website for creative expression on sound + site + matter website launch 2.0. does this site have a point? possibly does this site have a function? indeed, as a means to empty my head, help document my activities and hopefully initiate discussion on what is presented here. […]