Seth Cluett: Lost threads and new experiments in spatial sound
Date:
Wed, 04/06/2016 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Colloquium Lost threads and new experiments in spatial sound
Abstract:
Seth Cluett will present recent experiments exploring novel applications for loudspeakers in his creative work including 3d printed enclosures, non-standard multi-channel arrays, and augmented AR. He will also present rare material from his archival collection of historical documents related to the exhibition of sound in the visual arts.
Bio:
The work of the American artist and composer Seth Cluett explores everyday actions at extreme magnification, examines minutae by amplifying impossible tasks, and explores auditory memory in forms that rethink the role of the senses in an increasingly technologized society. With work ranging from photography and drawing to installation, concert music, and critical writing, his "subtle...seductive, immersive" (Artforum) sound work has been characterized as "rigorously focused and full of detail" (e/i) and "dramatic, powerful, and at one with nature" (The Wire). The recipient of grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Fund and Meet the Composer, his work has been presented at the Whitney Museum, MoMA/PS1, The Kitchen, Palais de Tokyo, LOOP Festival Barcelona, Issue Project Room, Roulette, and Audio Visual Arts and is documented on Line, Sedimental, Notice, and Winds Measure recordings. As a researcher, he is interested in embodied auditory experience, the history of sound as an expressive medium, and architectural acoustics as compositional material. In the fall of 2015 he joined the Music & Technology faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.
Date: Wed, 4/6/16 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll 660 Lomita Ct. 2nd floor, Rm 217
FREE
Open to the Public