Robert Strong
RS-232
A collaboration between M. Cera and RS-232 (Joe Cantrell), Redux exists an exercise in destruction and recombination. Industry creates and destroys technologies in a mad rush to provide consumers with the best-equipped tools for survival. But by marginalizing objects that are considered obsolete, consumers and industry alike ignore the potential capabilities these objects maintain. Redux circumvents this process by creating new life from the objects of the recent past, using capabilities of the present.
In "From Pillar to Post", a hypersonic sound speaker is mounted on a motorized turret, allowing the speaker to rotate slowly around the room. As the speaker moves from left to right, tearing sounds emanate from the wall, creating the sensation that the room is slowly being torn apart. Once the speaker has completed its trajectory, the speaker begins moving in the opposite direction and we hear the sound of a new wall being constructed. "From Pillar to Post" stops short of giving its audience a glimpse of the world outside, providing frustration and endless confinement to architectural space.
Sander Roscoe Wolff
Sander has been making sounds for nearly 45 years. He has performed and recorded with a variety of acoustic, electronic, and digital instruments. He has recorded sounds in studios, various venues, and in urban and natural landscapes. He contributed kinetic sculptures to the first two SoundWalk events, and performed in the third. He has worked professionally as an audio engineer and music producer. He is the co-creator and Executive Director of LongBeachCulture.org, a free arts portal.
My primary focus is envisioning a universe of interconnected fields and forces where separateness, according to current models of quantum mechanics, simply cannot exist. The rich tapestry of the world, and all that exists on and in it, serves as a canvas upon which we use our creative impulses to define our lives, and our selves. Foregrounding these principals is my goal in all my work.
http://blog.sanderis.com
Surrealestate
Surrealestate is a Los Angeles-based improvisation and new music ensemble that has been in existence since 1996. Its members come from a variety of backgrounds, including jazz, contemporary music, and various world music traditions. Given the nature of improvisational music, the number of musicians involved with Surrealestate varies. Surrealestate performs free improvisations, adaptations of other composers' music, and compositions by its own members. The musicians in Surrealestate are Jonathon Grasse: Percussion and sounds; Ken Luey: Saxophones and Clarinet; David Martinelli: Drums and Percussion; Jeff Schwartz: Bass; Charles Sharp: Saxophones; Douglas Wadle: Trombone.
For Soundwalk this year Surrealestate proposes an evening of wandering improvisations. Each musician in the group will walk around the arts district individually, and when two or more musicians encounter each other they will engage in an improvisation of sounds and music. When they are finished they will move on until they encounter another musician. Some musicians may want to be continually mobile, others may stop for a while at one location. Some more adventurous players may want to engage in dialogues with other installations or passersby.
Thomas Anthony McDermott
Los Angeles born artist, Thomas recently received his Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts with a minor in Psychology from the University of California San Diego. Since then he has been involved in various art shows within San Diego. His goals are to continue producing art that achieves expressions that ascend from both personal interests and his academic experience. He has recently formed a collaborative art group based in San Diego to further his artistic schemes amongst a group of talented artists.
Reward Sound
The Reward Sound game booth is set up for your active participation! In inviting you to throw paint dipped Nerf balls at me as I sit inside the booth, a successful hit to my body will grant you a reward sound, which I have devised to play for you. This performance piece is also a continuation of a series of recent performances called The Blind Performances. Many of the themes from these previous performances such as spectacle, anonymity and play have carried over here.
Tom Skelly
Tom Skelly was born in St. Louis Missouri in 1952. He received a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University in Painting in 1979. In 1980 Skelly accepted a position to design and implement a multi-disciplinary fine arts program at the California Institution for Men in Chino. During this time he began collaborating with artists in a variety of disciplines including theater and music. In 1985 he began hosting a weekly three hour radio program at KSPC at Pomona College. Since then Skelly has been producing radio and audio art for gallery installations, performances, and National Public Radio. Skelly resides in Claremont and is active in the community and public art scene. He continues programming at the California Institution for Men, works as a studio artist, and hosts The Sound of Pictures at KSPC 88.7fm Claremont and www.kspc.org on Sundays from 7-10pm.
This current sound sculpture in the debut of a new work based on my experience as a radio disk jockey. Although it is pre-produced, its' automatic character comes to life through the simultaneous layers of multiple CD players. The subject of this piece is the extraordinary percussion playing of Norma Tanega. Her extensive work in the field of impact music is reimagined here forSoundWalk 2007.
Tom Sky
Tom Sky was born, as one tends to be, in the small city of Lebork, which one can find on the central coast of European Poland. The creative juices already in place Tom took on photography, design, science and philosophy, however it is music which has an exclusive and special place in his life. He feels he expresses his sensitivity and creativity best in that artistic medium.
After being given an Atari computer by his parents, Tom found he had a whole new world to explore. Later he fell in love with exciting, electronic possibilities of composing and creating music on the AMIGA system, with its diverse and magic spectrum.
After immigrating from Poland to United States in 1994 over the years, through many challenges, Tom gradually gained knowledge and experience which gave him the status of true expert in modern music technology. Currently Tom's main production tools are synthesizers and audio dedicated custom computers which he meticulously put together himself - Tom is currently living in Long Beach California where he's involved in numerous art projects.
Statements:
'Music is a more than art it is the great capacitor of emotional energy - the rythm the composition and the sound are the main elements of music.'
'Rythm is the structural attribute
Sound is the energetical messenger
Composition is the emotional signature'
'Sound is Music - Music is Sounds'
www.TomSky.euTristan Shone
Tristan Shone is a mechanical engineer, sculptor and musician hailing from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and now University of California, San Diego having worked in industry with robotics, automation, biotech and micro devices and also playing in metal bands for over 12 years. His newest body of work entitled Drone Machines, are interfaces for sound and rhythm, but also extensions of your industrial primate and a direct reflection of what they control.
Composed of components ranging from robotics and automation all the way to older hand tools and musical instruments, these machines are meant to last and carry great weight and potential. In performing with the Drone Machines, I act as the lone worker in my doom metal alter ego existence Author & Punisher, physically maneuvering about the control room backed by ample watts of sound, reaching deep into the innards where wood and steel join as flesh and bone.
www.oleblue.comYann Novak & Gretchen Bennett
The East River Project
The East River Project is an ongoing collaborative installation series by Gretchen Bennett and Yann Novak. The project combines MP3 downloads with direct street encounters and intends to transform public space for the viewer/listener. By transposing the sights and sounds of parallel neighborhoods, this project aims to shed light on the similarities, with the final intention of making the viewer/listener more conscious of their own surroundings. The website acts as a launching pad for the series. There, viewers can find downloadable maps and MP3s, as well as instructions for their use. How the installations are explored is up to the viewer/listener, meaning each viewing of the work is unique and preserves the element of urban discovery.
The second installment of The East River Project is an audio only version for Soundwalk2007 and features new recordings of a variety of walks taken by the two artists. The recordings are available at the website for listeners to download and listen to during their walks between events and locations of the SoundWalk2007 event.