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Microradio Sound Walk: Hallwalls
Jun 03, 2006: 8pm- 10pm
Hallwalls
341 Delaware Avenue | Buffalo, NY 14202
http://www.hallwalls.org/
Microradio Sound Walk is a experimental media art event and walking tour of Buffalo’s airwaves utilizing transmission tools to create a soundscape that responds to both the architecture and sonic phenomena of the space surrounding Hallwalls.
Microradio Sound Walk consists of three transmission stations–“Local Frequencies,” “Environmental Nature,” and “Social Spaces” –situated along a loosely defined route inside the new Hallwalls space at the former Asbury Delaware Church and branching out throughout the immediate neighborhood. Participants who encounter radios or are lent radios with headphones proceed through the route in the order of their choosing, as they move farther away from one station and grow closer to the next, the signal they receive too will shift. This sonic progression maps the spatial qualities of the airwaves and provides a tangible example of their ubiquitousness.
Three artists, 31 Down, Matt Bua, and Radio Ruido, are placed roughly equidistant from one and other. Each will microcast his signal on the same FM frequency. As visitors take the Microradio Sound Walk the three signals fade in and out depending on the listeners’ movement.
View a QuickTime excerpt of the event Local Frequencies – 31 Down
31 Down's station will be focused on the local airwaves themselves. Using radios, wireless microphones, cell phones, walkie-talkies and scanners as well as locating Bluetooth and WIFI signals, this "Local Frequency" station will feature works that make use of the local airwaves by sampling and 'playing' them back.
Formed in 2001 by Ryan Holsopple, 31 Down is a radio-transmission based theater company from Brooklyn, New York. The vision of the company lies in the hybridization of modern technologies with older technologies, systems, established genres, and forms. The theater company uses radio transmissions, wireless devices, and home security technology to expand and contract traditional theatrical spaces.
Recent projects include: wwwSomnambulator as part of Surge, an online transmission exhibition presented by Rhizome and free103point9; Wanderlost as part of Airborne, presented by free103point9 and The New Museum for Contemporary Art, Spring, 2005.
www.31down.org
Environmental Nature – Matt Bua
In Environmental Nature, Matt Bua will use contact microphones to wire the Hallwalls environment. Some microphones will be easily spotted while others will be concealed. The signals activated by the audience will produce one element of this sound walk montage.
Matt Bua makes drawings, films, videos, installations, and performance art pieces. Bua’s “Suitcase Orchestra” is a self-contained, partly/fully automated sound creator, which uses precariously prepared instruments, animal talk, electronics, and motors. His frequent collaborations with Jesse Bercowetz take form in large-scale fantastical, sometimes aggressive, spaces that redefine and re-imagine found objects as functional elements in architecture.
Bua has shown work internationally at exhibition and public spaces including: the University Museum at Albany, New York; Grizedale Arts, Cumbria, England; Art Omi, New York; Cambridge Art Council Gallery, Massachusetts; and Feigen Contemporary, Masiimo Audiello, Brooklyn Museum, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Derek Eller Gallery, Governor's Island, and Jessica Murray Projects in New York City.
www.overcoat.org
Social Spaces – Radio Ruido
Performed by Radio Ruido, the third and final FM station concentrates on Social Spaces in order to highlight the discursive properties of radio. This will include site-specific works that explore a phenomenological approach to the 'sound walk,' or work which focus on physicality of the performance area, local histories, idiosyncratic voices, audience interaction/play, and storytelling.
Radio Ruido encompasses radio projects initiated by artist Tom Mulligan. Working both solo and in collaboration, these projects entail both composed installations as well as various improvised live sound situations. Often site-specific in content, they seek to challenge conventional concepts of radio as well as exploring and challenging the physicality of the performance space.
He is currently hosting Triangulation, a weekly Online Radio show Tuesdays live from the free103point9 Project Space in Brooklyn, New York. The ongoing focus has been presenting a live forum for experimental sound cultures.
Radio Ruido has performed live with the audio-visual collective Dimmer and designed sound for Teatro Chinampa. He has recently exhibited at Deitch Projects, White Box, and Participant, Inc., in New York; at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore; and the Center for Contemporary Art Ujadowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland.
www.free103point9.org/artist.php?artistID=4
Microradio Sound Walk premiered in 2004 with free103point9 transmission artists Damian Catera, Matt Mikas, Michelle Nagai and Tom Roe. It was presented in conjunction with Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City, a three-day event in New York City that highlighted the diverse ways artists, technical innovators and activists are using communication technologies to generate urban experiences and public voice. In May 2005, free103point9 presented its second Microradio Sound Walk at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland.
Microradio Sound Walk consists of three transmission stations–“Local Frequencies,” “Environmental Nature,” and “Social Spaces” –situated along a loosely defined route inside the new Hallwalls space at the former Asbury Delaware Church and branching out throughout the immediate neighborhood. Participants who encounter radios or are lent radios with headphones proceed through the route in the order of their choosing, as they move farther away from one station and grow closer to the next, the signal they receive too will shift. This sonic progression maps the spatial qualities of the airwaves and provides a tangible example of their ubiquitousness.
Three artists, 31 Down, Matt Bua, and Radio Ruido, are placed roughly equidistant from one and other. Each will microcast his signal on the same FM frequency. As visitors take the Microradio Sound Walk the three signals fade in and out depending on the listeners’ movement.
View a QuickTime excerpt of the event Local Frequencies – 31 Down
31 Down's station will be focused on the local airwaves themselves. Using radios, wireless microphones, cell phones, walkie-talkies and scanners as well as locating Bluetooth and WIFI signals, this "Local Frequency" station will feature works that make use of the local airwaves by sampling and 'playing' them back.
Formed in 2001 by Ryan Holsopple, 31 Down is a radio-transmission based theater company from Brooklyn, New York. The vision of the company lies in the hybridization of modern technologies with older technologies, systems, established genres, and forms. The theater company uses radio transmissions, wireless devices, and home security technology to expand and contract traditional theatrical spaces.
Recent projects include: wwwSomnambulator as part of Surge, an online transmission exhibition presented by Rhizome and free103point9; Wanderlost as part of Airborne, presented by free103point9 and The New Museum for Contemporary Art, Spring, 2005.
www.31down.org
Environmental Nature – Matt Bua
In Environmental Nature, Matt Bua will use contact microphones to wire the Hallwalls environment. Some microphones will be easily spotted while others will be concealed. The signals activated by the audience will produce one element of this sound walk montage.
Matt Bua makes drawings, films, videos, installations, and performance art pieces. Bua’s “Suitcase Orchestra” is a self-contained, partly/fully automated sound creator, which uses precariously prepared instruments, animal talk, electronics, and motors. His frequent collaborations with Jesse Bercowetz take form in large-scale fantastical, sometimes aggressive, spaces that redefine and re-imagine found objects as functional elements in architecture.
Bua has shown work internationally at exhibition and public spaces including: the University Museum at Albany, New York; Grizedale Arts, Cumbria, England; Art Omi, New York; Cambridge Art Council Gallery, Massachusetts; and Feigen Contemporary, Masiimo Audiello, Brooklyn Museum, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Derek Eller Gallery, Governor's Island, and Jessica Murray Projects in New York City.
www.overcoat.org
Social Spaces – Radio Ruido
Performed by Radio Ruido, the third and final FM station concentrates on Social Spaces in order to highlight the discursive properties of radio. This will include site-specific works that explore a phenomenological approach to the 'sound walk,' or work which focus on physicality of the performance area, local histories, idiosyncratic voices, audience interaction/play, and storytelling.
Radio Ruido encompasses radio projects initiated by artist Tom Mulligan. Working both solo and in collaboration, these projects entail both composed installations as well as various improvised live sound situations. Often site-specific in content, they seek to challenge conventional concepts of radio as well as exploring and challenging the physicality of the performance space.
He is currently hosting Triangulation, a weekly Online Radio show Tuesdays live from the free103point9 Project Space in Brooklyn, New York. The ongoing focus has been presenting a live forum for experimental sound cultures.
Radio Ruido has performed live with the audio-visual collective Dimmer and designed sound for Teatro Chinampa. He has recently exhibited at Deitch Projects, White Box, and Participant, Inc., in New York; at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore; and the Center for Contemporary Art Ujadowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland.
www.free103point9.org/artist.php?artistID=4
Microradio Sound Walk premiered in 2004 with free103point9 transmission artists Damian Catera, Matt Mikas, Michelle Nagai and Tom Roe. It was presented in conjunction with Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City, a three-day event in New York City that highlighted the diverse ways artists, technical innovators and activists are using communication technologies to generate urban experiences and public voice. In May 2005, free103point9 presented its second Microradio Sound Walk at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland.