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Sound Installation Exchange between MassArt and U of Edinburgh

Help Kelsey complete this installation, and travel to Edinburgh to collaborate on and install it with artists and musicians abroad!

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Sound Installation Exchange between MassArt and U of Edinburgh

Sound Installation Exchange between MassArt and U of Edinburgh

Sound Installation Exchange between MassArt and U of Edinburgh

Sound Installation Exchange between MassArt and U of Edinburgh

Sound Installation Exchange between MassArt and U of Edinburgh

Help Kelsey complete this installation, and travel to Edinburgh to collaborate on and install it with artists and musicians abroad!

Help Kelsey complete this installation, and travel to Edinburgh to collaborate on and install it with artists and musicians abroad!

Help Kelsey complete this installation, and travel to Edinburgh to collaborate on and install it with artists and musicians abroad!

Help Kelsey complete this installation, and travel to Edinburgh to collaborate on and install it with artists and musicians abroad!

Kelsey Jarboe
Kelsey Jarboe
Kelsey Jarboe
Kelsey Jarboe
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Boston, United States
$410 USD 6 backers
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PROJECT SUMMARY

The purpose of the trip is to bring a sound installation produced by myself and other Mass Art students to Edinburgh, Scotland to initiate an artistic exchange and relationship between the SIM department at Mass Art and the media programs at the Edinburgh College of Art (part of the University of Edinburgh). The exchange would begin in Boston with a composition specifically produced for the installation, which would then be installed in Edinburgh by me. I will then collaborate with and invite the artistic community there to respond in kind with their own interpretation for the installation, which would then be brought back and installed in Boston. This project has three key objectives: to gain greater exposure for and deepen the relevance of new media practices to contemporary art and life; to initiate a long-term artistic relationship between two significant institutions of art; to further my own work as a sound artist and designer by necessarily involving interaction and multi-sensory experience.


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The installation involves hanging a room with “singing mirror” devices, which I have designed and will construct from two-way reflective glass, motion sensors, and programmed micro-controllers with audio speakers. They will at first appear like common bathroom cabinet style mirrors. Each device contains a recording of one voice, or track, of an audio composition written specifically for the piece.


This composition is a collaboration between myself and the Mass Art choir, a group spearheaded by DMI graduate student Amber Vistein. Over the coming summer, I will be meeting with interested students to conduct workshops in composition of a mulch-instrument piece of music that can be easily arranged multiple ways. This approach was partially inspired by artist Darren Solomon’s http://inbflat.net/, which is a good example of a collaborative composition which functions in this way, although virtually. Up to ten other people who commit to the project will have one month to work independently and together to finish the composition. Participation is open to current Mass Art undergraduates, graduates, faculty, staff, and alumni who still have a significant relationship to the Mass Art community. During this time I will also be able to finish construction on the remaining devices.

The devices function when viewer-listeners approach the mirrors and trigger the sensor as they view themselves in the surface of the piece. The objective is to allow viewer-listeners to participate in a unique arrangement by absent performers in a hybrid experience of live event and documentation. By seeing themselves on the surface of the devices that control the aural dimension of the piece, the dis-embodied performers become re-embodied by their audience. This calls particular attention to questions of presence and absence of the body in performance, and the relationship between an intellectual and physical experience of a work of art. The arrangement of the music is not only determined by the presence of an audience, but is affected by the size of audience and the degree to which members of it work together.


WHY?

Edinburgh is a culturally rich city. It is the home of the famous Fringe festival, several royal and private galleries of art, and, in particular, the Edinburgh College of Art. When the College of Art fused with the University of Edinburgh this past summer, it came to include literary, musical, and new media departments it had never had before. Similarly, with the SIM program, Mass Art is one of the other few institutions in the world where mixed and new media can be deeply explored from a basis in the visual arts.

I have visited the University of Edinburgh before. I have recently been in contact with Dr. Michael Edwards, the program director of the Digital Composition and Performance department and staff in the Sound Design department. He has expressed strong interest in the project and allowed me to join a closed online network of students in those departments in order to discuss ideas.

By fostering an exchange between Mass Art and the University of Edinburgh specifically with new media work, this project will initiate a potentially rich relationship between two cutting edge artistic communities and clear a road for future collaboration, contacts, and experimentation. Like the mirrors within the work itself, the installation is both a self-contained piece of art and an invitation for the viewers to reflect back.


WHAT I NEED

Travel and housing is the most expensive part of this project, but the materials for the installation equally necessitate funding. $30 is one night of lodging! $80 is one device within the installation! Every little bit helps!


ROUND TRIP TICKET BETWEEN BOSTON AND EDINBURGH (off season): ~$1125

CHEAPEST POSSIBLE ACCOMMODATION IN THE UNIVERSITY DORMS (one month) ~$900

MATERIALS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF INSTALLATION (circuits, speakers, mirrors, tools, etc) ~960

TOTAL BEFORE COST OF FOOD, ADDITIONAL EXPENSES, LABOR ETC $3000!


OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP

Come over and solder circuits with me! But also, spread the word! Forward this to anyone you think would be interested in seeing this project happen.

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