Friday, July 30th: Floating Points Festival, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY
The Phoenix was my first attempt at creating primarily sound-based public art works that are radical reorientations of a space’s identity, both constantly reframing and creating an aura of wonderment for the place. In 2005, myself and Colby Brown (a transportation planner as consultant) won a competitive commission from the City of New Haven to [...]
Eight Channel Audio Commission by the MATA Festival Duration: 14’ You and Me, Going (2008) by micahsilver You and Me, Going is the result of an imaginary unfolding — of a near- archaeological process through my recent work: of unearthing artifacts, brushing them off, finding new resonances with old things, and deducing/ constructing narrative from [...]
*asterisk was commissioned for a festival of public art in Peekskill NY. The piece took six months to complete, the first stage being about one hundred hours of observation and audio recording around downtown Peekskill, along with recording “staged” sound events. The second stage involved the editing and composing of the audio material (sound library), [...]
After working with an amazing team to get EMPAC up and running (starting with six of us and now over 40) and fifty projects later I’m moving on from Troy NY .. stopping full-time work May 1 and continuing as consultant until a successor is found. When I get through all the archiving I need [...]
