Radio love and memphis 2013 60″ x 72″ x 60″ Mixed media installation: experimental audio instrumentation, midi triggers, electronics, fm transmitter, microphones, wood, yarn. Radio love and memphis is a fully functional FM radio station equipped with experimental musical instruments, microphones, and the selected lyrics of songs about love and the city of Memphis. A semi enclosed space measuring 5 ft long x 6ft high x 5ft wide houses the radio station. Participants are encourage to play, sing, read or create their own musical versions of classics such as Beale Street Blues by Louis Armstrong or less fortunate compositions like Memphis Lives In Me by Bon Jovi,.With instruments unintended to produce traditional notes, midi devices that trigger pre-recorded sounds and a microphone available for vocal engagement, participants negotiate control of the audio experience while learning the tactility and sensitivity of the piece to their manipulations. For the duration of the exhibit the sounds will be broadcasted, Participants will be given small radios and encourage to take the experience outside the confines of the space and as far as the reach of the FM signal. these fractures go largely unnoticed 2013 72″ x 72 “, variable height Mixed media installation: Amplified sound, speakers, electronics, casters, mixed wood construction. These fractures go largely unnoticed uses the sounds of radio love and memphis to generate kinetic power. The kinetic energy is produced by audio amplification, the energy is used to slowly disintegrate sculptures representing abandoned architecture and its perpetual state of change.

• published: 09 Dec 2014
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