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No Defects
No Defects
To hear on Sunday 14 and 21 September 2008, 2 pm till 9 pm:
No Defects
Subviola - David W. Halsell and Hilmar Bjarnason
Subviola is a sound art collaboration exploring the intersections and boundaries of culture, noise, and place. For their initial project, No Defects, the duo of Bjarnason and Halsell manipulate field recordings from urban and rural spaces of the American Midwest. Railroad locomotives, country meadows, industrial spaces, and Appalachian folk musicians are transformed into washes of protracted and convolving sounds punctuated by disjointed rhythms and vocalizations. This tense and disorienting work reflects the artists' experiences while living in the economically depressed post-industrial "rust belt" and evokes the widespread disillusion in the myths of American industrial and social history. The title comes from the most common of radio messages in the automated system of status reports of railroad lines.
At the same time in the ohrenhoch-cellar:
Homily for Swelling Kennels
Single channel video loop by David W. Halsell
Homily for Swelling portrays a fictional phantasmagoric scene of destruction by natural forces. The source footage for the manipulated video loop is of an actual natural disaster, the devastating 1936 flood in Pittsburgh, PA (USA). Nearly every culture in the world has a flood myth, indicating its profound ongoing effect on the human experience. The title is in part derived by Jonathan Swift's "Description of a City Shower", a satirical verse using the idea of the flood as a social equalizer. Homily for Swelling Kennels engages the intertwined relational dynamics of the natural environment and our social structures.
David W. Halsell (Spain, 1967) is an experimental media artist who has worked with sound for two decades in performance and recording, primarily exploring the mutable definitions of noise versus information in structure and content. The intersections of the natural and mechanical worlds and perceptual phenomenology have influenced his work in both the visual and sonic arts. Currently Halsell is a Research Associate at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington.
Hilmar Bjarnason (Iceland, 1965) played drums in a rock band before pursuing a career in the arts, focusing primarily on the creation of sound, both as installation, published audio works and collaboration with others working in visual medium. He graduated from the Iceland College of Arts and Crafts in 1997 and continued his education in the Academy of Fine arts in Vienna with Professor Franz Graf and later in The Royal Danish Academy of the Arts in Copenhagen with Professor Torben Christiansen.
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