finding words in notes

sound/sculpture
2006
hand made quilt (sewn by my mother), wood, acrylic paint, polyurethane, audio equipment, stereo sound work
30" x 60" x 12"

“finding words in notes” came out of the idea of the connection and separation of the notes on the lines and spaces of the musical staff. the small sculpture is a model of the notes on the spaces – f,a,c,e – while the larger sculpture is modeled by the notes on the lines – e,g,b,d,f. the colored stems are based on research in relation to synesthesia and various color-to-musical-note equivalents. the quilt uses a translation system informed by the combination of line and space notes for its structure. the sound composition also converses with this idea of the separation, yet connectedness, of the lines and spaces in that the speaker near the small sculpture plays a composition made from sounds of the space notes on a piano; while the speaker near the larger sculpture plays a composition made from the sounds of the line notes. these compositions are of different lengths, and interact with each other as a slowly shifting third composition made up of the two, as they improvise with each other. i was interested in the idea of combining parts that would, at times, feel comfortable and at others incompatible – of course i also had an interest in what would happen if there was a collision of sculptural objects, hand crafts, and sound…

this piece was originally shown at studio la citta in verona italy in 2007