Media Artist, Educator, Maker of Things
…(Marseille, FR) 2019 Optical Sound Performance – Wave Farm Audio Buffet 2017 Witnesses: Trikaya – (with nbaldrich) installation at The Cannery, Maine 2016 Sferics 2: Bell Cloud – (with nbaldrich) The Cannery, Maine The Sun Dialogs (v2) included in Radiophrenia…
Witnesses: Trikaya is the latest in a series of works where a group of electronic Buddhist chant-boxes create a spontaneous sound composition in response to television images. It was created in collaboration with N.B.Aldrich. and first exhibited at Ottawa School…
…David Tudor’s diagram for Rainforest IV, and an extensive interview. Michel Waisvisz’s Cracklebox (1975) was a chaotic DIY noise machine, recently re-issued. I use circuit-bent Buddhist chant-boxes in a series of projects: Witnesses, Witnesses:Scope, Witnesses: Trikaya. Chinese electronic music band…
N.B.Aldrich and I debuted a new installation called Witnesses: Trikaya at Ottawa School of Art in Ontaria Canada. In Witnesses: Trikaya, circuit-bent Buddhist chantboxes respond to footage of Chinese incursions in Tibet. The show is up until Nov 22 2015….
I exhibited a version of my Witnesses piece at SCOPE New York art fair from March 7-10 2013. Seven circuit-bent Buddhist chant-boxes responded to a slideshow of images from the opening of Headscapes, a group exhibition that was running concurrently…
…version of my Witnesses piece at SCOPE New York art fair from March 7-10 2013. Seven circuit-bent Buddhist chant-boxes responded to a slideshow of images from the opening of Headscapes in Long Island City. Check it out here: Witnesses: SCOPE….
Witnesses is an installation where circuit-bent Buddhist chant-boxes create a dense sound composition in response to television images. Chant-boxes (variously called a “chanting player”, “buddha box”, or “buddhist jukebox”) are usually given away in Chinese temples to assist in meditation….
The Sequence of Waves show at St. Cecilia’s Convent was packed, but in case you missed it, here is my installation, “Witnesses”….
The quarterly Italian new media magazine Neural ran a review of my Witnesses installation in their latest (summer 2012) edition. The online version is here….
In 2008 I made circuit-bent Buddhist chant boxes to be given to guests at a NYFA fundraising event. I continue to experiment with them as instruments, gifts, and sculptural objects. (The ongoing Witnesses series is based on these.) (chant boxes…
…are participating. There’s a robotic gamelon orchestra, a self-playing accordion suspended from ropes, performances, and much more. My contribution is called “Witnesses”, a group of 10 circuit-bent Buddhist chant-boxes whose pitches are controlled by light-sensors attached to a CCTV surveillance…