“Points in a Circle: Site-Specific Works for the Hemispheres at Issue project Room”
A month-long program that features new, site-specific work presented on IPR’s 16-Channel Hemispherical Speaker System
Over the last twenty-five years, Francisco Lopez has developed an astonishing sonic universe that is absolutely personal and iconoclastic, and based on a profound listening of the world. His work destroys boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifts with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, and proposes a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion.
“Between what we can hear and what we can see are frequencies that surround us every day. They come from electrical systems in ships, the sun, cars, weather patterns the subway, radio, and countless other sources. Every day, every hours, and everywhere, they change.” Using a single sideband of shortwave receiver and electronics, Todd Merrell will search the airwaves for the electrical fingerprints of Issue Project Room on July 18, and transform these electromagnetic waves into an immersive, musical soundscape, an impression of what Issue Project Room sounds and feels like electrically and musically, on that day, in that hour.
Stephen Moore is a composer, audio artist, and sound designer in New York City. His creative work centers around the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity. Recent performances and installation artworks make use of the large multi-channel array of his hemispherical speakers at IPR. He performs regularly as half of the electronic duo Evidence, and with a variety of musicians, live-video artists, and dancers.