FMP artist and sound

HildeMaassen
Aug 20, 2020
6 min read

I wrote about artist who use sound before such as Kurt Schwitters and his Ursonate (1932) on this CRJ and others who use sound in art or exhibitions. I myself had an exhibition in 1993 were sound was added to complement the experience of the exhibition in the dark space with just a small light on every image in the dark space.

In this post a couple of examples were art, image and sound come together. But also come by other things that have noting to do with sound but are interesting to me. Keeping focus is not always as easy.

GLITHERO

In response to the theme of intangible heritage, an exhibition has been created "Woven Songs Textiles". In addition to textile work, there are 2 films projected side by side in which 2 older craftsmen, an organ maker and a weaver talk about their passion that has been passed on from father to son, but the future of which is uncertain. There is a great similarity between the work of both: they both work with punch cards.

The similarity in both professions has resulted in woven music images.

The Boogie Scarves are silk scarves with a design that is a direct copy of the organ book. The rectangles on the scarf are the holes that determine which sounds are played by the organ.

Playing Cards' damask tablecloths are about the coding patterns that unite the art forms of weaving and organ music card making.

I found this work because one of the images I obtained when converting my image into text very much like the music cards that go into a street organ. Have to make the sound slower, spread to make it into organ music :-)

Samson Young

Creates politically charged performances in which he shows / gives performances. For example, he reacts to footage of American bombs that fell muffled in the Middle East, and then mimics the sounds of the massacre on a custom arrangement of instruments and non-instruments, such as a can of compressed air or a razor blade.

Mélodie Fenez

Mélodie Melak uses homemade synthesizer that she connects to a range of different plants. Through physiological responses, the plants modulate the frequency they produce, creating a living and ever-changing sound. she actually makes the sound that plants make heard. In live performances she uses that sound to produce minimalist music.

For the project entitled Osmosis she collaborated with dancers. The relationship between the human body and nature is the subject. It's about learning to recognize instinctual behavior.

Her work reminds me of an article from the BBC with the title: "plants talk to each other using an internet of fungus".

Because of that article In saw the Tedtalk where Paul Stamets lists 6 ways that mushrooms can (help) save the world.

Not my subject but for sure interesting (saw a couple more tedtalks on food an the environment)

Kalle Hamm and Dzamil Kamanger

Project: Immigrant Garden (audio)

This artist duo works with plants that everybody knows in Finland but that not originally come from there. A methaphor for refugees and immigrants. Thet recorded the sound that pants make. They use an old recordingtechnoc developed by Jagadish Bose (India, '20s-'30s) and Ivan Gunar (Soviet Union,'60s-'70s). It is based on measuring the electrophysiology of plants. As a result, a sonic equivalent of a kirlian photograph is recorded, a kind of sonic aura.

Project: Waiting for the Extinction 2019 A film that sows two species of plants both living in Finland: Siberian primrose (Primula nutans) and glacier buttercup (Ranunculus glacialis) who both suffer from climate change.

All the sounds in the film are recorded produced from biodata. "Band of Weeds" using microvolt sensors to record changes in the magnetic fields of plants.

Tuula Närhinen

http://www.tuulanarhinen.net/index.htm

Very interesting work with all kind of experiments and wonder with natural sources.

Nothing to do with sound but it has to do with the way I work.

Tweeduster: Hans van Veldhuizen

This is a blog where the maker shows all kind of great ways to produce punched carts for organs; technical stuff. He also has a way to work direct from MIDI files; amazing. Have to see if I can use it far a day or so. Again not art but might be very useful for me. I sent him a mail to ask if he could help transform my MIDI files to punch carts.

Susan Philipsz

Susan Philipsz makes sound a physical or sculptural experience. She is interested in the ways that sound and space can define and mediate one another, creating poetic and immersive installations that draw from musical, literary and historical references. In the project on war damasked instruments she let musicians play te same song on damaged instruments of the first world was and she combined them into one piece. Not all the notes can be played because the instruments are not complete; that gives it the awareness of the war.

Liliane Lijn

Liliane Lijn is known for her kinetic artworks. Most of her work is about the female identity. Het work has a technical aspect that I find interesting. The reason I place her in a part on sound, which she hasn't made, as far as I know her work is the title of the video below. The aim of the work: 'I try to make work that will allow people to still their mind and look at things with a different eye',

"Make words become vibration; make people to see sound".

Jarbus Agnelli.

Very good story; seeing births on telephone wires on a photograph that reminds of a song and then turn it in one. Hear the results:

Adam Brown

When I found this article it was a shock; someone else had transformed pixels into sound. The name of the project Concentrism. I just can find one article on it. In this article a video is shown. His question is: What happens to the message when the medium changes? He wants to show the transformation: he plays the records, made from the sound of the image and then plays it while slowly, line by line as, the audio waves are turned back into a photo. It becomes an experience. In the article you see it happen:

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2014/04/09/262386815/can-you-hear-a-photo-see-a-sound-artist-adam-brown-thinks-so?t=1597779651820&t=1597940947760&jwsource=cl

Brown says he isn't trying to solve problems; he's exploring questions:

Why do we store music and images the way we do?
What's the purpose of our photographs?
Can you see a sound?
Can you hear a photo?

Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen

Sound work evolves around an investigation of the body in relation to space and acoustics/resonance. The projects range from minimal and conceptual sound installations to intense noise performances. Topics are embodiment, interface, bevioral patterns, system aesthetics, post humanism and queer theory.