FP recommends a visit to 'Noise Control'
30th November-6th December
Symposium: Saturday 5th December 6pm-9pm
IMT Gallery
Unit 2/210,
Cambridge Heath Road,
London,
E2 9NQ
An exhibition of new works by eight sound artists, Noise control addresses the manner in which we deal with the subtle balance between different concepts of noise and how it undergoes transformation in the arts.
There exist vastly differing interpretations of what constitutes 'noise' and the exhibition demonstrates how the artistic control of noise lays at the very heart or artistic practices, whether they be music, installation, film or performance. Noise Control presents work by Antoine Bertin, Haris Custovic, Karl Gibson, Victoria Karlsson, Matthias Kassmannhuber, Zuzana Novak, Alex Paschali and Marco Shilling.
Some of the artists in the exhibition
use noise as the medium to reveal sonic properties: Custovic’s
video work examining the facial expressions in reaction to unfamiliar
sounds, or Schilling’s shaping of background noise to explore the
boundaries where noise and music overlap. Karlsson addresses the
transformation of sounds to and from language, and how the
inconsistent nature of verbal communication incorporates shifts of
meaning and interpretation that oscillate between signification and
noise.
Other works show how noise can be
shaped by our environment. Kassmannhuber’s site-specific
installation demonstrates how audio feedback can be controlled
through the manipulation of its trajectory through space, whilst
Paschali explores the near-mythologising of the notion of resonant
frequencies and Bertin’s sonic “explorations” document sounds
from spaces just outside of our reach.
Other artists deal with more
socio-cultural definitions of noise. Novak explores the voices of
London’s homeless population, her work revealing how these voices,
overlooked or ignored by mainstream society, occupy and shape our
concepts of social space. Gibson is concerned with the origins of the
customs and traditions of Hip-Hop and whether they have been
misappropriated as Hip-Hop culture is absorbed into the mainstream.
Noise Control is curated by Joel Cahen
and Mark Jackson, IMT’s project co-ordinator. Cahen practices in
sound, video and improvisation. He creates sound for films and dance
productions and plays on a weekly radio show on Resonance FM called
Soundsoup. Together with sound artist Wajid Yaseen of Uniform, Cahen
created Scrap Club, a public destructivist activity. In 2008 Cahen
created the touring underwater sound art gallery Wet Sounds.
Noise Control is an exhibition and
symposium presenting the final work of eight MA Sound Arts graduates
of London College of Communication. The groundbreaking work in the
exhibition demonstrated the high level of critical debate in sonic
disciplines fostered by the university’s Department of Sound Art
and Design since 1998.
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