Paralleling several recent series devoted to the overlap between idea-based art, culture bound illnesses, conceptual poetics, and various studio-based practices, James Hoff has devoted his residency to studying and exploring the concept of involuntary musical imagery, or earworms, as the basis for musical compositions. For this final installment, Hoff debuts two new works for tuba and French horn derived from disco and pop earworms. The artist has manipulated, pitched, cut, and re-arranged original songs to reflect the cinematic character of the earworm phenomenon.
James Hoff is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His work encompasses sound, painting, writing, performance, and publishing. He is the co-founder of Primary Information (with Miriam Katzeff), a non-profit arts organization devoted to publishing artists’ books and art-historical documents. He has lectured throughout Europe and the United States at venues such as the MCA (Denver, CO), the Pompidou (Paris, France), the Sorbonne (Paris, France), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Nova Scotia, Canada), and the National Academy of Art (Oslo, Norway).
