Things I've Said in My Sleep
Part of the Overkill #2 exhibition
Jace Gace, Portland OR
July 4th - 27th, 2008
Opening reception: July 4th, 6-10 pm

My new headphone installation "Things I've Said in My Sleep" will be featured in the group exhibition "Overkill #2". The piece features vocalizations of my own transcribed sleeptalk, plus manipulations of a music box, clinking glasses, and a field recording of Tompkins Square Park in NYC.

The show opens July 4th at Jace Gace, Portland OR's premier purveyor of Belgian waffles, ales, and art (the art's not necessarily Belgian, but the waffles and ales are). Runs until July 27th. Jace Gace is at 2045 SE Belmont.

Sound Design Commission:
Heaven
by Amy Jorgensen
Part of the 30 Rooms exhibition
Milepost 5, Portland OR
May 16-24, 2008

This piece was inspired by Ms. Jorgensen's research into near-death experiences. Participants wound their way through a dark, circuitous, and sometimes claustrophobic tunnel suffused with the sound of breathing, to emerge into a space bathed in the light of a heavenly video projection and ethereal music.

Sound Spandrel: MMAA
Part of the Sound In Art/ Art in Sound exhibition
Minnesota Mueum of American Art
St Paul, MN
April 14 - July 1, 2007

For this exhibition I assembled an acoustic portrait of the MMAA's "silent" gallery space integrating recordings I made both inside and outside the museum itself, borrowing the architectural concept of the spandrel (the v-shaped space between two arches). "Sound Spandrel: MMAA" is a headphone installation that foregrounds peripheral and parenthetical sounds.

The first exhibition in the Twin Cities to focus solely on the role of sound in art, Sound In Art/ Art In Sound showcases the many forms of sound-- as mechanical, temporal, dynamic, collected and altered. The artwork brings 'noise' from the background of our daily lives to the foreground of our consciousness.

Featured Artists:
J. Anthony Allen, Minneapolis, MN
Christopher Baker, Minneapolis, MN
Leif Brush, Duluth, MN
Cheryl Wilgren Clyne, St. Paul, MN
Shawn Decker, Evanston, IL
Matthew Garrison, Downingtown, PA
Mike Hallenbeck, Minneapolis, MN
Helena Keeffe, Oakland, CA
Abinadi Meza, Minneapolis, MN
Jack F. X. Pavlik, Minneapolis, MN
Anne Wallace, San Antonio, TX

The Vortex
by Monika Bravo
at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
New York City
Part of the Natural Circuits exhibition
April 13 - May 26, 2007

Once again, it's been my pleasure to contribute some sound work for an installation by Brooklyn- based artist Monika Bravo.

The placid image of a pond is projected against the wall and reflected in an adjacent mirror. Once triggered by the passing viewer via a hidden interactive device, a spiraling movement at the center of the screen creates a turbulence that quietly calms within a certain interval. Ms. Bravo describes her inspiration for the piece: "The object of our perception is not reality in itself but an illusion of images we have created. Thus, The Vortex is used as a metaphor to the practice of contemplation as one way to attain a transformation required to change our distorted reality."