"INEQUALITIES"

High Zero Sound Installations
August 28th - September 14th, 2009
@ Load of Fun   120 W North Ave.   Baltimore

Since 2001, High Zero Festival has included a gallery show of installations, primarily to do with sound and other elements related to the broad experimental music and thought culture of which High Zero is a part. This year, High Zero Foundation presents INEQUALITIES, a gallery show at the Load of Fun curated with works of four very interesting local artists. Special thanks are due to Ric Royer and Sherwin Mark, and to the artists. The gallery does not have regular hours but is often accessible during the day, and is accessible during all Load of Fun events. See loadoffun.net for a schedule.

The following artists will present work in the show:
Walter Carpenter
Owen Gardner
Jesse Haas
Ayako Katoaka
Jimmy Joe Roche

 

Opening Party
September 8th, 2009
Load of Fun
120 W North Ave.
7:30 PM - $6 admission

 

• Walter Carpenter
  
  Electromagnetic alchemy, rational noise signal.
  
  
  
  
  

  "Tempest"
  
  A continuously morphing rhythmic stream produced by a modular synthesizer with radio emissions being used as modulation sources.

  
  
  
• Owen Gardner
  
  I live in Baltimore and I love it. I had the invaluable experience of growing up in Dubuque, Iowa, which insulated me from anyone or anything associated with experimental or otherwise interesting music or culture. With some useful input from family members I was able to pursue my own concerns and begin forging a yet incomplete musical language, which my experience in Baltimore has further refined, problematized etc. I'm currently completing a music history degree at Goucher College.
  
  
  
  
  

  "Space Is Deep"
  
  The three guitars are tuned to certain resonant frequencies of the room, which the e-bows sound continuously and over a long duration. The specificity of the tuning and the durational aspect of the sound, combined with the superimposition of this aestheticized simulation of the room on the actual room, will (I hope!) subtly alter and make more beautiful the experience of being in the space.

  
  
  
• Jesse Haas
  
  I first developed this computer program a year ago while living out of my car around UMBC campus, where I spent my time reading their books about computer algorithms that mimic biological phenomena, after a botched attempt to live out of an RV. For about 6 months, I ran the program nearly nonstop, sleeping next to my whirring laptop in the university library or engineering building, and was warmed by it in the cold months. I therefore associate the program with cold feet and my, at the time, inescapable wet shoes, the result of sweaty feet and walking through puddles, and having those shoes on or next to me constantly with nowhere to dry them. At one point of development (last December), the program was producing about 30 seconds of music a week due to its complexity and demand for memory, at which point I got frustrated and scrapped it. Most of the music it produced in those 6 months has been lost.
  
  
  
  
  

  "my_ga"
  
  Computer runs a program that modifies its input (digital audio signal) by a method which is loosely based on the concepts of evolution and genetic recombinance (my_ga = my genetic algorithm). Starting with a live recording of local band Janitor, the program randomly performs hacked-up signal processing operations on its input until it assembles something it considers musical, plays that, then scrambles it up and attempts to make it musical again, ad infinitum.

  
  
  
• Ayako Kataoka
  
  Ayako Kataoka is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Tokyo. Born into a family of Buddhist priests and artists, she grew up immersed in an atmosphere of shaka buddha drawings, chant depicted in Japanese calligraphy, and the milieu of traditional temples. Realized by cross-over mediums such as sound, dance performance, mixed-media installation, photography and video, her works are often embodied with her heritage dealing with the concept of bringing invisible to visible.
  
  
  
  
  

  "A Girl Said."
  
  A girl said (acrylic resin, 10" x 10" x 2", 2007), was inspired by my explorations to capture sound in solid form. After experimentation with running sound waves through ceramics slip, jelly, milk, plasters and water to visualize sound and forms, I conceived of a method to realize the project by using a rapid prototype machine. A girl said was made from FFT (Fast Fourier transform) analysis data of a girl saying 'I love you'. This sound data was analyzed and modeled in the software programs Max/MSP Jitter and form-Z. Following this, a 3D acrylic resin object was materialized via a rapid prototyping process, also known as stereo-lithography.

  
  
  
• Jimmy Joe Roche
  
  Jimmy Joe Roche is a visual artist and filmmaker living in Baltimore, MD. Recently he has been working with live video data manipulation. He curates a Monthly performance series at his home Mirkwood Estates.
  
  
  
  
  

  "Power Wagons"
  
  Charles Manson's psychic manifestation cult of peace. Jimmy Joe Roche channels Manson in his living room and alters the past by injecting himself in Hitchcock’s the Birds.