TRANSMISSION ART ARCHIVE
John Roach
Much of John Roach's work explores the sound that is bound up in materials and objects, flasks appear to bubble and pop on their own, pseudo-scientific experiments torque plaster with heat and cold, and glass percussion instruments shaped by patterns of human DNA are smashed to bits. Radio is a natural extension of this this exploratory process as it extracts sounds swimming through the air.
Recent Projects include: ""The Tactile Transducers"" (2016) in Lommel Belgium, a collaboration with glassblowers in which the memories of a local drummer were given physical form in glass and then used as instruments for a live performance; ""Instrument as Studio"" (2015) at NARS in Brooklyn, NY where I turned my work space inside out, projecting live video and sound of the sonic experiments unfolding in my studio/laboratory onto the floor of the gallery; and ""Gene Splicing"" (2016) developed for the festival 9e2 in Seattle, a celebration of the 50 year anniversary of 9 Evenings - Theatre & Engineering."