Ground, Unsettle, Surround: Act 1 (Establishing a Sound)
Josh Rios, Anthony Romero & Matt Joynt
Ground, Unsettle, Surround: Act 1 (Establishing a Sound) is a multi-channel audio work and sculpture containing a circular platform holding an empty lectern without a microphone. The 30 minute composition considers the helicopter as a tool of surveillance that attempts to simultaneously enforce the illusion of political enclosure. Mixed fidelity fragments of political speech from megaphones, lectures, protest chants, hackers disrupting the Chicago Police Department CB signals, and cellphone recordings made by the artists at protests throughout the summer of 2020
About Acoustic Resonance
Visual artists, like musicians, have used sound as a medium to shape and construct, and in so doing have sought to transform a viewer-listener’s experience. Sound can provoke memory, communicate across barriers, claim a space, or transform a city. The works in ACOUSTIC RESONANCE reflect on sound as a medium and tool of transformation. Imagery, objects, and installations reveal the potent qualities of sound art in our cultural landscape today.
