Sound art installation
Astro Turf is a sound composition addressing movement and temporality in urban spaces
inspired by the writings of French philosophers Henri Lefebvre and Gaston Bachelard, looking
into the interplay between unstable, fleeing and incoherent processes as part of everyday
life. Lefebvre points to the need for new approaches to the unpredictable, information,
play, and the use of the imaginary (Lefebvre 1996), and the lived experience of the city
and architecture (Bachelard 1994).
This sound piece was created as an installtion for the elevator at the gallery space,
Art in General at Walker Street in New York in 1999. The composition played while the
elevator was ascending or descending the four floors of the gallery, moving vertically
in space, juxtaposing a vertical listening experience with a horizontal sonic abstract
narrative.
Awards
Astro Turf was awarded Best Sound Art at the CYnet Art exhibition in Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany in 2000. In the Jury were Dr. Klaus Nicolai, Dresden; Iska Jehl, Professor Kunsthochschule München; Jens Heise, Institute for New Media, Frankfurt; Dr. Christa Schneebauer, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; Thomas Gerwin, ZKM Karlsruhe.
Exhibitions
2006
Daily Noise, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USASpring in Havana, International Electroacustic Music Festival, National Museum of Fine Arts, Habana, Cuba
2004
Stasis_Space, Chicago, USAVI Salon Internacional de Arte Digital, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Habana, Cuba
2003
Hearing Place, International Symposium of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, The Australian Sound Design Project, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, AustraliaPulse Field, International Sound Art Exhibition, Georgia State University Galleries, Atlanta, USA
Aether Fest, International Festival of Radio Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival, Dartmouth College, NH, USA
Sonidos Fijados , Barcelona, Spain
2002
Radiotopia; Open Air, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austriaart@radio on the River Hull, Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, England
2001
Micromuseum, medi@terra 2001, De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing, Travelling Exibition, Greece, Slovenia, Germany, FranceFile sound art, Custard Factory, Birmingham, England
Collective Jukebox 3.1, Salons de Musique. the Contemporary and Modern Art Museum of Strasbourg, France
2000
CEAIT 2000, Experiments in Art, Information and Technology, California Institute of the Arts, USAThe VII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, Curitiba, Brazil
Sonic Residues, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia