Artist : Richard Chartier
Title : Levels (Inverted)
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2006
Date : Sep-12-2006
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 01
Label : Line (a Division of 12k)
Source : CDDA
Length : 59:44 min
Size : 100,8 MB
Tracklist:
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01.levels (inverted) 59:44
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59:44 min
PRESS RELEASE
Levels (Inverted) was commissioned as part of the city wide
Found Sound exhibit. This six-channel site specific sound
installation was exhibited October 15-November 19, 2005 at the
1515 Arts Building within the three story concrete stairwell.
The sounds utilized are based on site recordings of the space
and towering central flourescent lighting fixture itself. Thick
white audio wires draped down from the ceiling and small
speakers adhered to the glass panelled staircase.
Due to the spiral shape of the staircase and the speakers
positioning (pointing towards the center of the space)
different levels and interactions of frequencies surfaced
within the space as the glass panes acted as conduits for the
lower frequency bands.
Although no recording could quite capture the full physical and
visual experience of being in the space with its lights and the
viewer/listeners own movement choice, this recording is not
meant to be a completed "composition" but rather a stereo
approximation of an installation environment, suggesting a
listeners gradual movement upwards through the space/sound
field, albiet a very slowed down one, in order to note more
apparently the nature of each level of the installation's
components. This 60 minute journey reflects opening three
cycles of the various looped and tuned components.
Due to the quiet nature of the piece itself this work is meant
for low volume listening.
Richard Chartier, sound/installation artist and graphic
designer, has created critically acclaimed recordings for
labels such as 12k/LINE (USA), Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Spekk
(Japan), Mutek_rec (Canada), DSP (Italy), and ERS (NL), and
Fallt (Ireland), including collaborations with artists Taylor
Deupree, William Basinski, COH, and *0 and has appeared on
numerous international compilations. His digital minimalist
work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial
nature of sound, silence, focus, and the act of listening.
Chartier's sound works and sound installations have been
presented internationally including at the exhibits Sounding
Spaces at ICC (Tokyo, Japan), I Moderni / The Moderns at
Castello di Rivoli (Torino, Italy), 2002 Biennial at the
Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Resynthesis at The Art
Institute of Chicago and with the travelling sound exhibit
Invisible Cities created by digital media curators Fehler as
well as solo and collaborative installations for Fusebox (DC),
1515 Arts/G Fine Art (DC), Die Schachtel (Milan, Italy), and
Diapason (NY). He has performed his work live across Europe,
Japan, and North America at MUTEK (Montreal, Canada),
GRM/Maison de Radio France (Paris, France), Observatori
(Valencia, Spain), DEAF (Dublin, Ireland), Transmediale
(Berlin, Germany), Lovebytes (Sheffield, UK), The Leeds
International Film Festival (Leeds,UK), The Rotterdam
International Film Festival (NE), Garage (Stralsund, Germany),
La Batie (Geneva, switzerland), and other noted digital
art/music festivals and at exhibits such as Frequenzen [Hz] at
the Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt) and A Minimal Future? Art as
Object 1958-1968 and Visual Music: Syneasthesia in Art and
Music Since 1900 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los
Angeles).
In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has since
curated its continuing documentation of compositional and
installation work by international sound artists and composers
exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital
minimalism. The premiere release on LINE, Chartier's Series as
awarded Honorable Mention in the category of Digital Music by
the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica, 2001 (Austria). In 2006
he was commissioned by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden to create the site-specific collaborative sound
performance work Specification.Fifteen with Taylor Deupree for
the Hiroshi Sugimoto exhibit.
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