Chris, Barbara and I talked about the show last night, and one thing we agreed is that so far, we're all thinking about presence as a big part of this show. Making people aware of their immediate presence, making them aware of the presence of possibly forgotten, mundane objects, what it means to be truly present. Coming out of that, we started thinking that audio should be a big part of the experience of this show; Chris in particular talked about the idea of making people aware of their own immediate presence in the space, which could be done perhaps with dissociative audio that would disorient the audience, make them pay attention to the space they're in.
I know this is something Kevin's thought about a lot in previous works -- we talked about his project "Alone Together" in particular -- so Kevin, when things lighten up for you a bit, we'd love to hear what you have to say about this. My own immediate brainstorming idea was of a sort of layered audio space -- recording sounds as they happen in the exhibition space and playing them back layered over each other, so that at any one moment you're hearing everything that's happened in that space over the past twenty-four hours.
Posted by seth at May 5, 2004 10:16 AMYES! I'm very interested in this.
I need to put a little reading list about this subjecct together for y'all. anyone ever read walter ong?
sound is more tied to presence than vision.
we can hear more things that we can't see than we can see things that we can't hear.
seeing is believing, but hearing keeps belief in question long enough to give us the willies.
sound is a very difficult medium to work in though - a single sound can often be many more things than a single image can be. the semiotics are more slippery. think of how a knocking sound can be so many things.
i'm very interested in pursuing this. more on a post later. with links.
for now though,
can i post mp3's to the site?
check this out - i saw it in nyc last week:
Posted by: kevin at May 24, 2004 01:12 AM