These are a series of sound sculptures and sound installations that I worked on in the years 1995-97.
Double Diamond Hitch Bridles, horsehair, yokes, bells and chimes. The Title Piece of my Senior Fellowship Exhibition at Dartmouth College. Using the domestication of animals as a metaphor for the control over women’s bodies and identities, this project was a reflection on re-sounding the body, and breaking down patriarchal structures.
Rooted Long String Installation. Root, animal hair, harpsichord wires, contact mics, speakers.
When you touch the root-body, it vibrates and resonates the room.
The Stringalope A tree branch, violin parts, horsehair, guitar strings, contact mics, bow.
A body-instrument: A hybrid of a tree branch with classical musical instruments and electronic contact mics. During the show, classical cellists would try to perform pieces that were performable and entirely unperformable.
The Stringalope (Installation View) A tree branch, violin parts, horsehair, guitar strings, contact mics, bow. The Stringalope installed alongside impressions of animal and human foot traces along the wall. The search for another way of being human in the world.
The Dyad Project: Volumes XI and XII Project in collaboration with Ray Guillette.
Altered Encyclopedia Brittanica’s with contact mics and mic inputs. The contact mics inside functioned both as direct sound mics as well as midi inputs for a program called MAXX to generate chaotic systems of pre-recorded language syllables. While performing and touching the contact mic in the encyclopedias, the chaotic generated syllables would unform and reform words- the breakdown and reforming of language and the rethinking of Englightenment structures of thinking..
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The Dyad Project: Volumes XI and XII Project in collaboration with Ray Guillette. Altered Encyclopedia Brittanica’s with contact mics and mic inputs