Instruments you can see, feel, hear and play
Home Sounds is a suite of instruments that can be felt, heard and played. There is a sound bed, a sound cart, a sound chair and a resonating platform on which they exist. This project was partially funded by the Chicago Cultural Affairs Department (DCASE).
Installations
Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt I composed this sound experience using electromagnetic waves (recorded with Christina Kubisch’s proprietary equipment). The sound comes from resonating paper rectangles that could be felt and heard..
Color Cast - Hyde Park Art Center (Anna Kunz: Color Cast, INSTALLATION VIEW, The Hyde Park Art Center, 2018 copyright AKUNZ 2023) For painter Anna Kunz’s show, I created a resonating floor that helped ground the soaring experience of her paintings and installations.
Sound for video
Curved Silence videographers Alina Markina and Mario Bosca created this homage to Chicago based on Lakeshore Rush’s performance of my composition.
Images from France Annkathrin Pfaffendorf Murray created this film of the shadows on the side of a barn to go with my sound track.
A sample of compositions
Fanfare for Singing Insects was performed by Chicago Composers Orchestra and was the result of listening to and recording the late summer songs of the insects of Lincoln Park’s South Pond. I composed Fanfare to accompany their songs.
Breathe, a string quartet with electronics, was selected for Experimental Sound Studio’s Oscillations series. The work was inspired by a recording I made of my mother’s breathing while on a respirator on a night I thought I might not hear her breathe again.