during 2000 and 2001 i created a number of sound installations: including bird forms at the ucla hammer museum; o.t.r. at the en red o festival barcelona; shells at the transmissions festival in chicago; forms of paper at the hollywood branch of the los angeles public library; dry landscape at raid projects fullerton california and thought i couldn’t breath at raid projects los angeles, hanging garden at pasadena city college art gallery, and culminating with the installation schindler house at the mak center for art and architecture los angeles.
the following text was written for the catalog of the exhibition “inland specific” that took place in 2000, at the pasadena city college art gallery:
“the primary focus of my sound installations is the use of a singular non-traditional source for the creation of a sound/music composition within a given space. in many cases, the source is directly related to the place that the installation is presented in; such as the sounds of a gallery space or the sounds of an adjacent produce market. other times i have stumbled across audio inspiration in a more intuitive way, such as the use of the sounds of james joyce’s voice and drawings related to his placement of text on a page. in all of my work – painting, sculpture, video, and sound – i am interested in abstracting information of all types and re-presenting these things as a new and unfamiliar presence. my intention is to open things up, and to deny a single reading. the audio work is generally quiet, and non-narrative. it attempts to alter ones perception of the landscape, and to create a kind of audio architectural space that one can wander around in.”
