Amanda Gutiérrez, in collaboration of Jenn Grossman and Stuart Jackson
Flâneuse
The performance explores the multiple possibilities of the soundwalk and Rhythmanalysis, given by Henri Lefebvre as musical tools of cultural spatial code analysis, in the awareness of the urban changes and their cultural/acoustic content. The sound and video soundwalk will be send via streaming to Jenn Grossman and Stuart Jackson, who will improvise with the binaural sounds at the gallery. The sound and video will feature the live soundwalk of the spaces surrounding the gallery location, performing and interacting with social situations given along the 15 min journey, such as the configuration of the public and private space. The performance approaches the walk as a semantic instrument that embodies and traces the subjectivity of the Flâneuse, in relationship of the sonic ethnographic experience.
Stuart Jackson
Duet for Cymbal (1960/1964) by John Cage (1912-1992)
Duet for Cymbal is one of the alternative pieces that can be realized from the score for Cartridge Music. Instead of using phonograph cartridges to amplify small sounds (although phonograph cartridges can still be used), a contact mic is affixed to a cymbal which functions as the “cartridge” through which other objects may be amplified. The score consists of a series of transparencies with clocks, dotted lines, dots, blobs, and circles, which are used to obtain time brackets and performance actions. Through radical alterations of amplitude, tone control, and the use of tape loops, multiple fluctuations collide with the various actions (cymbal and auxiliary) to produce unanticipated sound events, making this a truly indeterminate work.
Jenn Grossman
Glimpse: Sketches in Sound & Light is an audiovisual performance - a series of video works accompanied by a live soundscape - that explore our ability/inability to capture what is ephemeral, to sustain or extend a moment or mood, a shape or texture, a pure subliminal feeling. The end result is a visceral, affective gesture blurring the lines between video and found light, composed and found sound, perception and vision, the mundane and the transcendent, a chance viewing and choreographed cinema.