Long time audio artist Steve Heimbecker has been producing and installing his audio installations in public from as far back as 1989. He is well known for his multiple channel sound compositions, audio art, and installations. A lot of his installations are actually out in Canada, as he did a tour across Canada and Europe way back in the 1980s. There is one particular, old installation that resides in Calgary, Alberta, called Nirvana. It is an audio art installation with roughly one hundred tubular chime bells in a wide range of sizes all spiraled to look sort of like a fancy, chandelier lamp post out in the middle of the park. It is supposed to ring at the slightest breeze and has been around for about thirty years. Personally, I think it's a wonderful installation as I love the sound of wind chimes and I think that just randomly hearing that sound while on a walk would be interesting - if not a bit eerie. It may not be spectacular in the sense that it isn't as "innovative" as things that involve electronics and devices that can loop sounds or something, but it does have a controller, so to speak. The wind and air around it dictates the sound and the sound can happen at any time. It is in a fixed place so that only some people may hear it and that in itself is an interesting concept, despite the fact that it might be considered an annoyance if the sound could be heard by everyone around.
By Bianca Mihalcescu For this week's blog, I decided to look at other peers' blogs first in hopes of finding inspiration from one of their own findings. It totally worked! Julia's Disneyland installment blog reminded me of an installation I saw two years ago at the Phoenix Zoo's annual "Zoolights" holiday show; it was called "Dancing Trees". According to Kurt Stelling, zoo special events supervisor, "one of the favorite highlights of the estimated 250,000 people who attend ZooLights each year is the dancing tree show". The show is basically made up of 8 to 10 trees, each about 30 feet tall, that are wrapped in colored lights. The lights are then synched to holiday music and "in essence, the trees dance to the music," Strait said. The show takes about four months to install and prepare. I can't imagine how the staff lays out such a complex display, but I remember the show being very visually appealling and a lot of fun to listen to! I am excited to hear that this year they are making a huge change to the dancing tree show "Music & Motion" due to new sound and programming equipment; all I know is that there's going to be surround sound...I"M SO EXCITED!! :D I chose to do this piece because I've actually seen these water fountains a lot. They are in the Seattle airport and I always pass through this airport going to and from the states. I've always wondered what this water fountain was and why it made so much noise. I actually avoided using this water fountain because it is so loud. When you hit the button for water to come out, there is a speaker located underneath that starts playing very loud water noises. You'll be sitting there waiting to board and all just here people go and get water. I just think it's funny now and I like that I actually know what it is now and that Jim Green was the artist, but I'll still avoid using it. I looked EVERYWHERE for an audio installation piece that wasn't in a traditional gallery space! After a while I just tried to get one from going to one art site to another, and I finally struck gold when I came across the official site of burning man. On their site they have a HUGE list of their audio installations along with a link to download them. I listened to a few of them and as I expected from burning man, it did not disappoint. I personally have never been, but after seeing these pieces and some of the others on their site, I have decided to go at least once. I would post a sample of them for you guys, but they are all download links , and I cannot figure out how to post them, so instead here is the link to the site
http://www.burningman.com/installations/12_art_tours.html I encourage you not only to look at these audio installments, but also explore the opther When I was thinking of audio installations, I was kind of stumped because I had NO idea of what I wanted to do. Then I remembered I went to Disneyland California Adventure last winter and saw this amazing water show. It has sounds from classic disney movies and their catchy songs we all know to well. As the show goes on the colors change to the theme, and while they are playing a clip from a movie there is a wall of myst acting as a screen. I went into depth and Joshua Horner is the master mind behind this magical project. He is from Austrailia and is a choreographer. Disney wanted him to create a unique style that would hit each point, and make the show look balletic, showing the graceful moves of the water as the show goes on. So to create this show he and a partner used dance moves to create the flow of the water using arm motions and hand motions. Overall this show is quite amazing, if you ever have the chance head out to Disneyland and check it out! -JULIA JAMES World of color premiered in Disney’s California theme park on June 11, 2010. It cost Disney over 75 million dollars to create and took 15 months to fully create. This show has, “More than 1,000 jets of water form incredible shapes in time to the music as Disney and Disney•Pixar characters come to life on a shimmering veil of mist.” I chose this for the blog because it is outdoors in a lagoon for anyone at the park to view. It is not set in a normal art studio to be viewed! If you have not seen this show YOU NEED TO!! It is amazing and breath-taking experience! They hired choreographers to dance to the music from our common Disney films for the water programmers to create the illusion that the water was dancing to the music! Bringing back the classic hits where everyone remembers the music from “The Lion King”, “Little Mermaid”, “Toy Story”, etc. to make everyone feel like a kid again. The lights, fire, fog, video and water move to the music and create a world of magic! Without these effects this show would not capture the crowd and display the emotion it does for the viewers. Bellagio Fountains, Las Vegas Most of us have been to Las Vegas and seen the fountain at the Bellagio, but has anyone wondered who actually created that? So I started doing some research and actually found out that it was a team of great people who create these kind of interactive fountains all over the world and there numerous of them in the United States. Their work is so beautiful and innovative. Choreographing water to sound is phenomenal and quite beautiful. There’s nothing more fascinating then watching water and seeing what it can do, and when you add the effect of light it becomes even more elegant and captivating. I’ve watched numerous songs at the Bellagio and they are all so different depending on which song you catch them to. I recently saw Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, and it blew my mind. I loved the fact that I could actually relate, by knowing the song and anticipating to see what the water would do at certain points of the song. Water art is truly amazing in my eyes. -Kara French WETdesign Check out their website, it's amazing.
Don Ritter was born in 1959 from Canada. He later moved to Berlin, Germany where he was in the active field of graphic design from the early 1980s. His work consists primarily of large interactive video and sound installations that audiences control through their body position, body movement or voice. I really thought this was cool that his show changes every time. I was curious as to what sound artists consisted of and I thought this was great! The video I posted usually he presents this art in a large dark room. He created this back in 1993, and is still widely known. His most recent work was created in 2010 called Vested, and the installation "reflects the commodification of human tragedy." His work differs from many new media artworks because its content is primarily concerned with human behavior. David Letellier is an installation artist who primarily works with sound and interactive sculptures that change space around the audience and coordinate to a somewhat ambient white noise. I chose this artist because I liked his use of space alteration around the audience to alter their perceptions of the room they are in and attach a sound to that alteration. To me it reminds me of A Space Odyssey: 2001 for some reason. Maybe the futuristic and clean/sleek designs. Also I think this first video especially reminds me of looking at the universe on a scientific level imagining all the invisible planes and vectors that make up outer space. To me this is a great example of abstract art with the use of sound. By: Tiffany Harnden
Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman make a variety of art, including installations, sound art, web projections, and visual art. They have been in exhibitions ranging anywhere from Detroit to Turku, Finland. Their audio is more along the lines of techno beats and are rapid enough and numerous enough to blend together to create its own form of music (or noise depending on how you see it). Techno and documentary basically. They go into their own category for sound with how new and different this is to me. Out of all the music I listen to (which this is not a music artist, it is an audio artist even though they have made Cd's), techno is not one of them. So I'm actually not too much of a fan of them. The more along the lines of documentary audio works are interesting though. Frankly finding things on them have been interesting, and things that I can actually show here for what they do has been difficult. Out of all their exhibitions with sound, I can only find reviews, not examples. And so I will attach as many links to their work with sound that I can find. http://www.fallt.com/empire <---has sound links to a Christmas bit they did. Kinda interesting to listen to. (links on bottom right side) http://www.fallt.com/artists/alejandraandaeron <---review of an exhibition by them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqYJY0mVOdQ&feature=related <---interview with them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rsmb4K-nOE&feature=related <---audio of a song they did "Non stop Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in Mandarin |
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