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ohrenhoch presents two pieces by Stephanie Loveless:
'Some Day (stereo)' Premiere over the ohrenhoch loudspeaker installation, and in the basement in loop mode the video and sound piece 'Torch Song'
Sunday 29 July and 5 August 2012, 2 pm - 9 pm
Some Day (stereo)
special mix for ohrenhoch
(2009-2012, Premiere)
presented over the fixed ohrenhoch loudspeaker installation
Stephanie Loveless on 'Some Day (stereo)' [10 min.]:
'For Romantic Fantasy' is a sound installation made up of eight speakers embedded in large, handmade, black paper cones, emitting a chorus of female voices. A stereo mix of this work, 'Some Day (stereo)', has been produced for presentation at Ohrenhoch Sound Gallery.
The voices are my attempts to vocally replicate an increasingly time-stretched recording of the 1937 Walt Disney song “Some Day My Prince Will Come” (as sampled from a Hallmark audio greeting card). In an eight-channel presentation, one speaker plays my vocal replication, the next plays an attempt to replicate my own replication, and so on, creating a cascade of non-digital delays through seven generations of attempts and false starts. In the stereo version, the different attempts are audible, although not spatialized.
Throughout the piece, the voices and their song became abstracted – melodically, texturally and semantically – to the point of disintegration, before resolving into a choral movement which has less to do with the original sound source than with the creation of a new musical space.
Torch Song
(2008)
Videoloop in the ohrenhoch basement
Stephanie Loveless on 'Torch Song' [6 min.]:
'Torch Song' is a video and sound piece that explores unresolved desire through hand-processed Super-8 film, dictaphone recordings, and an all-vocal cover of a Venezuelan pop song of love and revenge.
ohrenhoch produced anew the Special Booklet, limited edition:
Interview with Stephanie Loveless, biography, description of the works. In English and German.
Making, illustration, interview: Knut Remond.
Stephanie Loveless is a Montréal-born artist who works with sound, video, film and voice.
She makes soft-speakers out of paper cups, performance prescriptions for audience-identified ailments, and performance pieces that attempt to channel the voices of plants, animals and musical divas.
Loveless’ sound, video and performance work has been presented in festivals, galleries, museums and artist-run centers in North America, South America, Europe and the Middle East.She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council and el Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; awards from Kodak, the International Festival of Cinema and Technology, and the Malcolm S. Morse Foundation; and has completed residencies at el Centro Mexicano para la Musica y las Artes Sonoras (Morelia, MX), the Coleman Center for the Arts (York, AL) and Studio XX (Montréal, QC).
She holds MFAs from Bard College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a BFA from Concordia University and is currently in the process of completing her Deep Listening Certification with composer Pauline Oliveros.
Stephanie Loveless