steve
roden
music
for clouds, 2002
solo exhibition: a year of skies, e/static gallery, torino, italy, 2002
this
work was created for the skylight at gallery e/static in torino italy.
i wanted to create a viewing space with sound for the movement of clouds
through a very beautiful skylight in the gallery space.
the physical part of the installation
consisted of an elevated platform with speakers on it, that one could
climb up onto and lay down upon to view the skylight and the cloud movement
beyond it.
the audio was created using a score process i have been working with for
the past 10 years called 'cloud formations' where i draw the contour lines
of a cloud and then use the drawing as a kind of score (in the past mainly
as a path of singing notes moving up and down in pitch based on these
lines). in this case i transformed the drawing to the neck of an electric
guitar and recorded the few notes that followed the cloud path. i then
took out the note 'hits' and left only the resonances and loped and multiplied
the whole thing to a series of drifts. the work was played very softly
through two speakers facing each other so that only really audible when
one was laying down on the platform facing the skylight.
(to see another soundwork
from the same exhibition click here)
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