Flying with John and Karlheinz, 2002

collage: Cage: Fontana Mix score element and souvenir postcard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PULSE FIELD

presented by the Schools of Art & Design and Music

curated by Craig Dongoski, Robert Thompson and Cathy Byrd

 

 

January 18 – February 28, 2003

 

January 18, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Opening Reception

Pulse Field

Georgia State University Galleries

 

February 6, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

First Thursday Downtown Arts Walk

Ouie Dire performs at 7:00 PM *

 

February 19, 7:00 PM

Douglas Kahn: Drugs and Sound

Speakers Auditorium, Student Center

 

 

* in residence from February 1 – 21

the French sound art collective Ouie Dire

will produce a sound art postcard of Atlanta.

 

Pulse Field website: cara.gsu.edu/pulsefield

 

 

L’Objet Sonore

curator: Adam Overton

January 18 – February 21

Opening Reception

January 18, 8:00 – 10:00 PM

Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery

Suite 8, 290 MLK, Jr. Drive

Atlanta, GA 30312

www.eyedrum.org

 

Pulse Field at the first exhibition is the series

“Situations Françaises: Atlanta Presents

Contemporary Art from France,” a set of exhibitions designed

by Georgia State University, the Atlanta College of Art

and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

to showcase new French art.

 

Situations Françaises is presented with the support of

Etant Donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art

and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

 

Other sponsors include Sweetwater Sound, retromodern.com,

Robert Thompson and Jude LeBlanc.

Pulse Field: SoundScape  III

 

REAL and IMAGINARY

 

 

Disc I – 63:21

Monday - Friday 10:00 AM

Saturday 12:00 PM

 

Rachel Holstead (Ireland)

 

1) Rain Between the Showers                                                   6:58     2000

 

Mario Verandi (Argentina / Germany)

 

2) Plastic Water                                                                        8:00     2000

3) Faces and Intensities                                                 11:20   1996

 

Pierre Thoma (Switzerland)

 

4) Le souterrain                                                                        35:54   2002

 

 

Disc II –  70:14

Monday - Friday 11:04 AM

Saturday 1:04 PM

 

Bruce Hamilton (United States)

 

1) reverie for electric toothbrush, computer and recorded sounds

                                                                                                6:05     2002

2) Motto                                                                                  7:15     1998

 

Erdem Helvacioglu (Turkey)

 

3) Blank Mirror                                                                        9:32     2002

4) Living in Istanbul                                                                   6:42     2001

 

Elzbieta Sikora (France / Poland)

 

5) Aquamarina                                                              9:52     1998

 

Hildegard Westerkamp

 

6) A Walk Through the City                                                      16:02   1981

7) Cricket Voice                                                                       10:55   1987

 

 

Disc III –  56:59

Monday - Friday 12:14 PM

Saturday 2:14 PM

 

Chantal Dumas and Christian Calon (France / Canada)

 

1) The Little Man in the Ear                                                      56:59   2000

 

 

Disc IV –  52:38

Monday - Friday 1:11 PM

Saturday 3:11 PM

 

John Cage (United States)

 

1) Cartridge Music                                                                   18:53   1960

 

Larry Austin (United States)

 

2) Williams [re]Mix[ed]                                                            20:41   2001

 

John Cage

 

3) Imaginary Landscape Number 1                                           8:21     1939

 

Iannis Xenakis (Greece / France)

 

4) Concret PH                                                                          2:42     1958

 

 

Disc V –  46:42

Monday - Friday 2:55 PM

Saturday 4:55 PM

 

 

Mathew Adkins (United Kingdom)

 

1) Deepfield                                                                             20:11   2000

2) Melt                                                                                     11:49   1994

3) Clothed in the Soft Horizon                                       13:20   1994

 

Monday - Friday 3:42 PM (Program Repeats)

Saturday 5:42 PM (Note: gallery closes at 4:00 PM)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Compelling art thrives on the cusp between the real and the imaginary – and thus we are lead to new experiences.  Distinctions blur and once common relationships are stretched into expressive new morphologies.  Sound lends itself, by its very nature, to transformation and elaboration – to stretching, blurring, recasting and sculpting.  Hearing evolves – as does the material heard.

 

Perhaps it was John Cage most of all who taught us to hear with 21st Century ears.  His work, Williams Mix, in a compelling new version by Larry Austin, is the centerpiece of SoundScape III.  

 

Some of the works included in the set are concerned with acoustic responses to specific, terrestrial, locales.  While others allude to otherworldly destinations.   Still others deal with aspects of phenomenon and materials – such as burning charcoal, water and metal.