March 1 - 30
Light & Sound Gallery

Interval | Lou Mallozzi
tension and release in sound on site

Opening Reception
First Thursday, March 1, 6-10pm

Interval is a sound installation that presents an enigmatic soundscape of body, intention, and action. It also presents a non-linguistic syntax of dialogue, interruption, and resumption. Its content is a set of recognizable and even iconic sounds, and thus it emphasizes the absence of the sources and recorded sound’s ability to reconfigure experience. Interval presents a recording of inhaling, holding the breath, and exhaling, repeated for 20 minutes and combines this with two additional sets of materials: a stereo recording of a piano being tuned and the occasional sound of a tree being chopped down with an axe.

Lou Mallozzi (b. 1957) is an audio artist in Chicago who dismembers and reconstitutes sound, language, gesture, and image in various media. He works in live performance, radio art, sound installation, CD recording, soundtrack design, and visual art. He has presented works at numerous festivals, concerts, galleries, and broadcasts since 1986. Mallozzi is the Executive Director of Experimental Sound Studio and teaches in the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.