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M4RI: Ping Pong Pop
SEAN KERR, 2010
Four online multi-user sound artists, performing from their bedroom, pinging each other sine wave tone with a few pops, bells and whistles. A work commissioned by ADA for the Electrosmog festival 2010. -
iForm
JAMES CHARLTON and COMOB, 2010
A process-based work that visualizes 3D forms from GPS data generated by the movement of iphone participants through the landscape. -
Huis Clos/No Exit – Jam
HELEN VARLEY JAMIESON (participant)
A performance screened at the HTTP gallery, London. Performers in Paris, Madrid, Hailuoto & Wellington were given a colour, and had four objects corresponding to one each of the colours. Our task was to perform sound whenever our colour appeared in someone’s web cam. We could choose which colour to show when, but we should try to listen to the piece, not to have one colour dominating, & not to show our selves. -
Old Noise, New Sounds…
SU BALLARD, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Su Ballard looks at New Zealand artists who have challenged the ‘silent contemplation’ of artworks through their use of sound in gallery spaces. Ballard describes how these artists have explored the ‘cultural battle’ between sound and image to create “new sounds” in contemporary art. -
Sound Stories: Phil Dadson
ESSAY by PHIL DADSON, 2006
Some years back, having written a few sound stories of my own, I began collecting anecdotes from sound artists and experimental instrument builders I met with whilst travelling in the USA. Each artist would be asked to tell a yarn about a sound experience imprinted on their memory that may have influenced the direction or path they were to take as artists. -
Entropy & Digital Installation
ESSAY by SU BALLARD, 2005
for THE FIBRECULTURE JOURNAL
Ballard suggests that entropy, rather than being a hindrance to understanding or a random chaotic force, discloses a necessary and material politics of noise present in digital installation.