Bridge String Melon | Melis van den Berg
Bridge, String, Melon
watermelon, string, bridge, valley
Site-specific installation: Watermelon suspended on a string from a road bridge near Rethymnon, Crete.
The traffic on the road over the bridge, and the wind blowing through the valley made the string vibrate and sing.
This work was made whilst on the Slade Utopia Residency in Crete.
E75 road bridge and valley, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 2009
Melis graduated from the Slade MFA in 2009. Degree Show website.
For further information and work see http://www.melisvandenberg.com/.
Her Voice | Patricia Delgado
‘Her Voice’ is an aural response to the print entitled: Sheet of Nineteen Heads in Small Circles (c. 1530-40) and was inspired by Julia Kristeva’s writings on the semiotic and the female voice. The sound-piece is a vocal progression that starts with word and symbolic language, moves into non-verbal sounds and the semiotic, and finally culminates in song.
While making this piece, I was concerned with the articulation of the female I-voice over the he/him of the male subject and the frustration at the constant return to the latter. Is the female ‘I’ only possible to formulate as the ‘I’ of difference, the ‘I’ of the other? I took refuge in song, but again encountered the problematic ambiguity of the singing voice: fetishised object for pleasure or the consuming self-enjoyment of feminine jouissance? Despite its theoretical struggles, I hope that ‘Her Voice’ retains an emotive impact and a refreshing intimacy.
This piece was made through collaboration with UCL Art Collections.
Patricia is a final year undergraduate at the Slade, look out for her degree show in May 2010.
Magnificent Tits | Dante Rendle Traynor
Sound installation consisting of muzak soundtrack from 1980s porn flick, ‘Magnificent Tits’ (groans removed) playing in the lift shaft of the Slade Research Center.
Dante is in the undergraduate Media department at the Slade.
Dolls / Orgasmo 3 | Tim Long
Audio:
Video:
Dolls and Orgasmo 3 were shown as an installation for the Slade / BBC event ‘The View from Here’ at BBC Bush House 20/02/2009.
For more information on this event please see The View from Here at UCL.
Cheek to Cheek (A Family Portrait) | Allison Maletz
I had each of my six family members (and myself) sing Irving Berlin’s song “Cheek To Cheek,” from the 1935 film Top Hat. I recorded each of us separately singing the song to completion at our own paces. Then I overlapped the seven tracks so that we are all singing it together, as a family unit, made up of individuals. It perfectly demonstrates the push and pull affect I am trying to create within my art, of the subjects being so happy together that they are in heavenly bliss, while at the same time there is something unbearably uncomfortable, out of sync, and wrong. The installation of this sound work exists within a domestic setting, and all of the tracks are played simultaneously out of one Gramophone horn.
Allison graduated from the Slade MFA in 2009. Degree Show website.
For further information and work see allisonmaletz.com.
Dirty Furniture 1 | Allison Maletz
An armchair is the base for this audio sculpture. The armchair is domestic, used, and out-dated. It looks as though it could be comfortable, but its worn and uncleanly appearance is not particularly inviting. Yet from within the chair a seductive voice asks to be sat on… literally calling in a soft whisper “Sit on me… sit on me…” repeatedly. This sculpture is about constant need and lack of acknowledgment.”
Allison graduated from the Slade MFA in 2009. Degree Show website.
For further information and work see allisonmaletz.com.
Earth Moon Earth | Katie Paterson
E.M.E on Katie Paterson’s website
E.M.E (Earth-Moon-Earth) is a form of radio transmission whereby messages are sent in Morse code from earth, reflected from the surface of the moon, and then received back on earth. The moon reflects only part of the information back – some is absorbed in its shadows, ‘lost’ in its craters.
For this work, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata has been translated into Morse code and sent to the moon via E.M.E. Returning to earth ‘fragmented’ by the moon’s surface, it has been re-translated into a new score, the gaps and absences becoming intervals and rests. In the exhibition space the new ‘moon–altered’ score plays on a Disklavier grand piano.
6th–13th June 2007, Slade School of Fine Art
2 April – 1 June 2008, Modern Art Oxford, Encounters Katie Paterson
For more information on this and other words see Katie’s website.
Vatnajökull (the sound of) | Katie Paterson
Vatnajokull (the sound of) on Katie’s website
An underwater microphone lead into Jökulsárlón lagoon – an outlet glacial lagoon of Vatnajökull, filled with icebergs – connected to an amplifier, and a mobile-phone, which created a live phone line to the glacier. The number +44(0)7757001122 could be called from any telephone in the world, the listener put through to Vatnajökull. A white neon sign of the phone number hung in the gallery space.
6th–13th June 2007, Slade School of Fine Art
2 April – 1 June 2008, Modern Art Oxford, Encounters Katie Paterson
For more information on this and other words see Katie’s website.
Narration of Sartre’s The Age of Reason | Patrick White
This is a recording of White reading Sartre’s The Age of Reason with all the words edited out leaving only the breath, glottal and associated sounds remaining.
Patrick White finished his BA at the Slade in 2006. Degree show website.
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