Sound / Stage
Performance and Installation by
Mark Schreiber
Ken Ehrlich / Brandon LaBelle
at f a projects, 1-2 Bear Gardens, Bankside, London
Friday, September 1, 2006, 7 - 9 pm
To celebrate the release of 'Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art'
by Brandon LaBelle (published Continuum Books) f a project presents Sound /
Stage, a performance by Mark Schreiber and an installation by Ken Ehrlich
and Brandon LaBelle.
Sound / Stage will bring together live sound performance with a specially
constructed seating and staging. Working with field recordings and treated
electronics, Schreiber's performance will create an atmosphere of textures
and minimal tones. In conversation with the performance, seating and
staging will be devised by Ehrlich and LaBelle as mobile units allowing
audiences to recline and enjoy particular views onto the performance while
inadvertently effecting the sound and its distribution through sensing
devices responsive to movement. A play of perspectives, sound and its stage
will become active in the making of a social music.
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Copies of 'Background Noise' will be available at a discount provided by
Continuum Books.
'Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art', Brandon LaBelle (Continuum
Books)
The rise of a prominent auditory culture, as seen in the recent plethora of
art exhibitions on sound art, in conjunction with academic programs
dedicated to "aural culture", sonic art, and auditory issues now emerging,
reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st
Century. And yet sound art still lacks related literature to compliment,
and expand, the realm of practice. Background Noise sets out an historical
overview, while at the same time shaping that history according to what
sound art reveals - the dynamics of art to operate spatially, through media
of reproduction and broadcast, and in relation to the intensities of
communication and its contextual framework.
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Ken Ehrlich is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. He has exhibited
internationally in a variety of media, including video, sculpture and
photography. His work interweaves architectural, technological and social
themes to play with ideas of invention and circumvention, superstructure
and infrastructure, consumption and waste, and site, place and location.
His recent project, the Elna Bakker Memorial Windmill, was installed in
Elyria Canyon Park in Los Angeles. He is the co-editor of "Surface Tension:
Problematics of Site" (2003). He currently teaches in the department of Art
at U.C. Riverside and CalArts.
Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sound and the
specifics of location. His installation work has been featured in
exhibitions and festivals internationally, including "Sound as Media"(2000)
ICC Tokyo, "Bitstreams"(2001) Whitney, "Pleasure of Language"(2002)
Netherlands Media Institute, and "Undercover"(2003) Museet for
Samtidskunst, Roskilde. He presented a solo exhibition at Singuhr galerie
in Berlin (2004), and an experimental composition for pirate drummers as
part of Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005). His ongoing project to build a
library of radio memories, "Phantom Radio", will be presented fall 2006 as
part of Radio Revolten, Halle Germany. He is the author of "Background
Noise" (Continuum 2006).
Mark Schreiber predominantly works with sound, seeking to encourage a
focused listening experience and exploring ways to stimulate this within a
spatial context. Since graduating from Middlesex University with a BA in
Sonic Art in 2004, he has curated the concert event "Tone Debris" at the
Whitechapel Gallery, participated in the exhibition "Technical Breakdown"
in Copenhagen, and produced sound design for theatre. He contributed a
catalogue text for the "Six Sites for Sound" exhibition in 2005. His
soundtrack for Dan Perjovschi's "My World" (2006) slideshow was screened at
a Royal College of Art "Again for Tomorrow" exhibition event, and his
installation "Light's Thread" (2006) was exhibited at the National Museum
of Kosovo. Recently he performed at the "Simultan" festival in Romania. He
is currently preparing material for his first solo CD release.
For further information, please contact the gallery - +44 20 7928 3228 or
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