This piece is titled “Music For 5 Notes And Found Sounds” It’s a 3D collage. It is made up of found objects embedded in resin. The objects are components left over from old projects gone haywire and other miscellaneous found items. I consider this piece to be a 3D collage because the process was completely additive. Found objects were placed in various molds along with resin. Then the various resin shapes were glued together.By embedding found objects in resin, a sense of unity is achieved. I was inspired by Dada assemblage works consisting of found objects as well as microsound techniques used by ambient musicians.
The work is a visual representation of my music. As a composer I spend most my time finding and collecting interesting sounds. I find them, record them, modify them, and arrange them in time. In this piece, resin represents time, and the found objects represent musical elements. There are components from my old quad oscillator, pieces of clay, needles, and colored beads. The oscillator components represent electronic sounds I use in my music. The pieces of clay represent organic sounds such as field recordings. The colored beads represent notes. Primary colors are used to represent whole notes.
The work tells a different story when observed at a distance. From a distance the work appears as two forms connected by wires. This is not a representation of my music, but instead a representation of my philosophical views. I believe that art happens between input and output. In my own work I give greater value to processes involved in the work rather than the actual work itself. Perhaps we are all just mediums through which art creates itself. Humanity is a process. Sound is a process. The world is full of interesting processes. I believe that a processes tell greater stories than materials or outcomes.
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