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Light & Sound Gallery Exhibitions 2007
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January 4 - 27
Many Pairs Sounding | Dan Senn (Portland)
Kinetic sound sculpture installation

The installation is comprised of sixteen micro-tuned tubes with paper mallet tops driven by sub-audio tones. The Tube Tops create a choir of intertwined overtones, which continuously make and remake the sonic landscape. Because of their Odradek-like features (Kafka's mysterious, impish-like character), these sculptural and kinetic instruments are easily anthropomorphized into a chattering ensemble of vocalists, an effect enhanced by utterances and tones emanating from the base of the tubes. This installation was first developed in Prague for an installation titled "The Odradek Complex.”
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February 1 - 24
Reflected Waves
Eric La Casa and Jean-Luc Guionnet
Paris, France
DVD video with 5.1 Dolby digital. total time : 1h48m26s

Reflected Waves is a sonic representation of Melbourne, Australia. Reflected Waves was created during an artist in residence program at RMIT. Their method involved creating a pointillist dematerialization of the territory, and then tracing from that a derived sonic map. In using sound as a medium, they question what does or does not make a landscape. Can sound decipher the world and objectify reality? How can sound teach us about the absent realities of a visible landscape? This project initiates a process of measurement through listening.
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March 1 - 30
Interval | Lou Mallozzi (Chicago)
tension and release in sound on site

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.
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April 5 - 27
3 Interiors | Bryan Eubanks (New York)
a 4 channel sound installation in three parts

Interiors are part of a body of process work that has taken on great importance in Eubank’s musical practice. The result lives comfortably between sound art and music, and contains 2 or more channels of closely related material. This process attempts to achieve a particular response from the material and the listener by creating a rich sonic field that can allow extended periods of total physical and psychic immersion.
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May 3 - June 1
InterTidal | Daniel Heila (Eugene)
Multi-channel video and electro-acoustic sound

Using tidal phenomena as structural impetus, images and sounds of mass human movement are gradually attenuated to reveal the singular sounds and stories of individual member of the human tide.
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June 7 - 29
Mapping Meg Ryan | Samantha DiRosa (Pullman)
video installation

A collage of formulaic moments from popular Meg Ryan romantic comedies, this work examines the homogenous narratives and overt happily-ever-after implications that repeat from film to film. Gaze Study is an ongoing documentation of every longing gaze that is performed between Meg Ryan and her love interests.
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July 5 - 27
Fragments of a Former Moon | Jim Haynes (San Francisco)
Installation: rust, glass, and sound

Fragments of a Former Moon features a 4-channel sound program, broadcast through a series of disassembled speaker cones. The repeated drone fragments, textural abrasions, and shortwave radio extracts are an aural parallel to the visual vocabularies of decay found on the 36 panes of glass.
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August 2 - 31
Well | Soundhouse (Seattle)
Perri Lynch & Clark Wiegman
multi-media installation

Well is a meditation on the cogent, ineffable properties of water.

SOUNDHOUSE STUDIO is the collaborative partnership of Clark Wiegman and Perri Lynch. Their sculptures, installations, and permanently sited public works explore the relationship between human perception and sense of place.
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September 6 - 28
Preparations | Mack McFarland (Portland)
experiments in color, touch, sound and smell
original score composed and preformed by, G. Norton.

In the spirit of multi-media mania: Albers, Munsell, synesthesia, Smell-O-Vision, The Mysterium were all inspirations for this work in addition to, Kandinski and Goethe’s “Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light,” as well as Wagner’s “Gesamtkunstwerk.”
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October 4 - 26
Swimmer | Colin Ives and Andrew Carson (Eugene)
kinetic video sculpture

Swimmer addresses the continual interplay between culture and technology. As a symbol of this collaborative process, a swimmer circles the room in an endless loop questioning whether the swimmer is within or propelling the projection.
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November 1 - 30
Room Works| Andy Graydon (New York)
sound and video projection installation

Room Works presents two site-specific media installation pieces that are generated from the environment in which they are presented. Scaffold (32 NW 5th Avenue) and On Axis (for Graham) are both works that seek to effect a mutual transformation of the physical space and of the viewer’s (or listener’s) attention to the present place and time. Processes of mediation are added to the room, but not with the intent of conjuring a window to another world, as in the cinema. Instead, one is placed at the hovering point between worlds, between existence and displacement; material and media; between actual fact and convincing fiction.