Elevator Music 22: Seeing Sounds
20 October to 30 December 2012
Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
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Co-curated with Gregory Carter ’13, Self-Determined Major in Music Technology, Adrienne Fuller ’13, Self-Determined Major in Sound and Acoustics, and Anthony Holland, Associate Professor of Music, Skidmore College
Seeing Sounds featured a new sound work created by Skidmore College Music students Gregory Carter and Adrienne Fuller in response to the accompanying exhibition Hearing Pictures.
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Carter and Fuller's three-part composition utilized over 400 audio recordings created by visitors to the Hearing Pictures exhibition; a small recording station in the gallery invited visitors to record the sounds they imagined in select artworks.
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Do certain images evoke common sounds? Is sound inherently more abstract than visual imagery? Does a single sound inspire a broader array of visual interpretations, as opposed to the number of sounds a picture elicits? What factors influence our coupling of images and sounds?
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Artists: Gregory Carter, Adrienne Fuller
Installation view, Seeing Sounds,
courtesy Tang Teaching Museum.