To hear on Sunday 27 July and 3 August 2014, 2pm - 9pm:
Conical Sound Test 1b
(2014, Premiere)
by Alan Nakagawa
Alan Nakagawa on 'Conical Sound Test 1b' [26:53]:
Conical Sound Test 1b is a combination of field recordings of various interior spaces of Barcelona architecture by Antoni Gaudi and Los Angele’s iconic outsiders art, Watts Towers by Simon Rodia. Both used conical design throughout their work and I was striving to create a sound environment that plays with omnipresence and invisible architecture.
Alan Nakagawa has worked primarily in sound and has been creating audience participatory sound experiences for the past decade. Drawing from diverse influences such as the Integratron Sound Bath in Joshua Tree CA, the frequency cluster studies of 1930’s scientist Royal Rife or his fascination with ultra-sonic communication of bats and marine mammal, Nakagawa has created a repertoire of installations and sound works that breakdown and then expand our understanding of listening. His primary sound sources are field recordings, analog effects boxes, oscillators, and his invention the Iso Cube which is a mini-isolation box that houses objects and allows him to processes odd textures and pseudo-rhythms using micro percussion which he loops and builds into what he terms as “thick chords”.