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- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Digital, Installation, Performance
- I am...
- an improvising musician and composer working with the breath, flutes and electro-acoustic sound extension and mixes in performance and installation. I am also interested in participatory processes that enable people to create against the backdrop of the sonic environment, currently involved in curating a large, outdoor, multichannel sound system for young artists' sound and music. I am thinking about the relationship between my experiences with young people and my own art practice and to what degree it's reciprocal.
- About my artwork
- Recent performances have explored the flute's expressive dimensions through extended technique and digital processing. My compositions have evoked myth (Kappa) and played with sonic images of the sea (Pirate Door). In installation I am exploring a series of connections between rhythms/cycles of the city, the social self, sound as event and sound as music. I am interested in making visible and audible the everyday rhythms of an environment by transforming these small sounds and daily rhythms into performance.
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- nowhere and everywhere
Mel Chil's Blog
I want to live in a castle..
"I want to live in a castle.." is constructed from materials recorded in a chaotic music classroom where I was music teacher for a time. In the classroom at this challenging school, playing percussion instruments became a way for many children to summon parts of the self left unnoticed in the academic classroom. Instruments were an engaging tool used by struggling selves to become robust and resilient. When I made "I want to live in a castle.." I was thinking about the performative aspects of gr… Continue
Posted on 28th May 2008 at 6:55am —
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Take care :)
Leith
best
simone
Want to participate in a collective sound installation presented in Kiasma (contemporary art museum of Finland), Helsinki and Conflux festival New York? Work is about urban silences and allows the viewer (or listener) to mix and loop different urban silences together. do you have a video camera or other recorder for sound? please msg me ASAP if intrested or if you want more info
-Antti Pussinen
cheers
Anna
I guess that the way the music is composed is important, look at the scratch orchestra and how they used the idea of improvised collaborative working, but with a structure underneath it all. Shame it all imploded really!
As for those paintings, I've never really thought about them that much, they began as drawings which I've been doing for as long as I can remember, way before I knew anything about 'art'. I see why you say about the rhythm in them, thats a really interesting insight, Rhythm is something I've always been obsessed with - can't get away from always having a rhythm in there somewhere whatever it is I do!
As far as the breath stuff goes, do you know of Mikhail Karikis? He does alot with vocal noises, coughs etc. Really good.
thanxs, If you click on the art I have written blogs for each, the street art is about the social divide and fear of the hooded youths in uk. The door images are a curiosity of what social interaction is hidden inside. The yellow and blue photography is a play on Monopoly and the decline of economics, my belief is that bankers greed has caused this social demise. I call it Conolopy...:) mx
Really enjoyed listening to your art
I will be back soon for more :)
Thnxx
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