Motorized Audio An immersive experience in collaborative dissonance as facilitated by small amplified motors. A series of 8-10 small, variable speed DC motors will be arrayed around a space, each one's speed controllable by audience participants with a simple potentiometer knob. Each motor will be amplified via electromagnetic pickup and broadcast out of a series of speakers, one per motor. Each motor's range of possible speeds (which translate into pitches) will be 'tuned' within a relatively narrow pitch range in comparison with all the others, so the resulting drone will be full of interesting acoustical beating and dissonances that appear and dissolve as you move around the space.
Layne Garrett is an improvising musician and instrument builder based in Takoma Park, MD. He works with prepared guitars, found objects, and self-built instruments. He plays in the improvising duo Weed Tree with drummer Amanda Huron, as well as in regular and irregular collaborations with a spectrum of players from across the DC and Baltimore sound universe. He is an active promoter of the musical culture, hosting house shows for the past decade and recently as a founding member and curator for Rhizome DC. He leads instrument building and sound exploration workshops and camps for kids at various educational institutions around town. He has traveled to play at events like High Zero in Baltimore, XFest in Massachusetts, Voice of the Valley Noise Rally in West Virginia, H-O-T Series of Improvised Music and Dance in Philadelphia, and Frantasia Festival of Out Music and Arts in Maine. http://www.questionthetruth.com/noise
Layne Garrett is an improvising musician and instrument builder based in Takoma Park, MD. He works with prepared guitars, found objects, and self-built instruments. He plays in the improvising duo Weed Tree with drummer Amanda Huron, as well as in regular and irregular collaborations with a spectrum of players from across the DC and Baltimore sound universe. He is an active promoter of the musical culture, hosting house shows for the past decade and recently as a founding member and curator for Rhizome DC. He leads instrument building and sound exploration workshops and camps for kids at various educational institutions around town. He has traveled to play at events like High Zero in Baltimore, XFest in Massachusetts, Voice of the Valley Noise Rally in West Virginia, H-O-T Series of Improvised Music and Dance in Philadelphia, and Frantasia Festival of Out Music and Arts in Maine. http://www.questionthetruth.com/noise
Elliot Bergman has been casting Peace Bells out of melted guns and bullets. The bells, or sound vessels, transform materials that were once used for violence into beautiful musical instruments. The bells are not tuned to a typical scale, but each piece is cast and allowed to resonate at the frequencies determined by the form. The set of bells combine to form a musical playground that serves as a way to explore rhythm, beat frequencies, understandings of consonance and dissonance, and intention.
Elliot Bergman is a musician and artist and producer who lives and works in Chicago. He tours and records with his bands Wild Belle, NOMO and Metal Tongues and also maintains an active visual art practice. He has been casting bells and building musical instruments in addition to his work with ink on paper, graphic scores, and sound installations.
Elliot Bergman is a musician and artist and producer who lives and works in Chicago. He tours and records with his bands Wild Belle, NOMO and Metal Tongues and also maintains an active visual art practice. He has been casting bells and building musical instruments in addition to his work with ink on paper, graphic scores, and sound installations.
Overhead consists of five audio scenes recorded during a road trip in the Mojave Desert. Each scene is a multichannel field recording that has been infused with technically-amplified (and otherwise inaudible) sounds of infrastructure present at the recording locations. These sounds originate from power lines, barbed wire fences and shortwave radio communication, amongst others. The piece deals with the idea of listening to the landscape vertically, layering sound traveling through the air and the sonic presence of the land itself, recorded on ground level. Overhead has been composed at the Electronic Studio of the Technical University Berlin and since April 2017 is part of the public sound installation "Continuous Drift“ at Meeting House Square in Dublin. Overhead is made possible through the generous support of the Goethe Institut in celebration of the longstanding relationship between DCLL and the Goethe Institut DC. Thank you to our friends at Goethe for years of creative collaboration and for the shared delight in audio arts.
Moritz Fehr (*1981, based in Berlin) works in sound, experimental film and photography. In his projects, he investigates the nature of sound in terms of metaphorical presence and spatial implications. His studies of Media Arts at Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany and Tokyo National University of the Arts, Japan were followed by a practice-based Ph.D. in Fine Arts at Bauhaus University and Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (SeaM) at Franz-Liszt Academy, Weimar. He received scholarships from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Bauhaus Research School Weimar and the State of Thuringia, Germany. His projects have been presented at exhibitions, screenings and festivals around the world. (www.moritzfehr.de)
Moritz Fehr (*1981, based in Berlin) works in sound, experimental film and photography. In his projects, he investigates the nature of sound in terms of metaphorical presence and spatial implications. His studies of Media Arts at Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany and Tokyo National University of the Arts, Japan were followed by a practice-based Ph.D. in Fine Arts at Bauhaus University and Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (SeaM) at Franz-Liszt Academy, Weimar. He received scholarships from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Bauhaus Research School Weimar and the State of Thuringia, Germany. His projects have been presented at exhibitions, screenings and festivals around the world. (www.moritzfehr.de)
Siren City is an interactive audio iPad exhibit where participants are transported into first-person narratives set in our siren city. Although sirens do consist of dissonant tones, this installation seeks more to highlight the metaphorical dissonance between communities and their sirens-- police enforcement, environment, sound and listening.
Jami Ramberan is an award-winning filmmaker and educator. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Journalism at Howard University’s Cathy Hughes School of Communication and a Film Instructor at Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Jami has worked as a film and video director for ten years, writing, directing and producing short films, music videos and commercials that have been screened internationally. Jami seeks to work on projects that inject a message of social change into the center of popular consciousness.
Kyle Murdock is the Director Media Learning at Howard University’s Cathy Hughes School of Communications. He grew up with an inexplicable passion for all things audio-related and a desire to follow in the footsteps of his uncle, the late Melvin Lindsey, best known for co-creating the worldwide radio format known as “The Quiet Storm.” Kyle’s creativity and interest in music led him to work as a recording artist touring domestically and internationally for several years. Kyle continues to work in radio and production while also pursuing his passion for teaching.
Jami Ramberan is an award-winning filmmaker and educator. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Journalism at Howard University’s Cathy Hughes School of Communication and a Film Instructor at Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Jami has worked as a film and video director for ten years, writing, directing and producing short films, music videos and commercials that have been screened internationally. Jami seeks to work on projects that inject a message of social change into the center of popular consciousness.
Kyle Murdock is the Director Media Learning at Howard University’s Cathy Hughes School of Communications. He grew up with an inexplicable passion for all things audio-related and a desire to follow in the footsteps of his uncle, the late Melvin Lindsey, best known for co-creating the worldwide radio format known as “The Quiet Storm.” Kyle’s creativity and interest in music led him to work as a recording artist touring domestically and internationally for several years. Kyle continues to work in radio and production while also pursuing his passion for teaching.
