We would like to thank the many artists, co-presenters and supporters of sound art who helped make this year’s Outer Ear Festival of Sound an unprecedented success. And we’re not through yet; several exhibitions extend through December and into the New Year. We hope you can join us for the final presentations of Chicago’s only sonic arts festival.
Mark Booth: Spanish Still Life or a Large List of Merged Animals
Sunday, October 26 - January 4, 2009
Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell map
Free
A walk-in installation that seeks to provide a physical and psychological contemporary exploration of the Baroque painting Still Life with Game Fowl (1600/1603) by Juan Sánchez Cotán, currently in the collection of the San Diego Art Museum. The presentation will include drawings, digital projection, enamel paintings and a 10-channel audio component that, when combined, transfer an eerie still life painting into a multi-dimensional study of organizational strategies. Booth aims to construct a sensory experience that liberates Cotán’s subjects of quince, cabbage, melon and cucumber and poetically embellishes them beyond recognition. The result is a calendar of wild beasts (for example, a sloth-toed cat or monkey-tailed trout) that, when spoken, immediately sends minds wandering a parallel universe.
Read more in TimeOut and the Tribune
Jenny Gräf Sheppard: Osmosymbiotic Echo
December 7, 2008 – February 28, 2009
Lincoln Park Conservatory, 2391 N. Stockton Dr. map
Free
What you hear in the Fern Room is Osmosymbiotic Echo: a composition by Baltimore artist and musician Jenny Gräf Sheppard. Jenny’s piece is based on the sounds of birds, but much of it uses sounds typically inaudible to humans – sounds in the ultrasonic range that affect plants, insects and other birds in a variety of ways. In addition to actual bird recordings, she also uses synthesized sounds based on birdcalls and wing beat patterns. Although we recognize a symbiosis among birds, plants, and insects in an environment, humans cannot always perceive the causes of this “give and take.” Through her composition, which is sometimes nearly inaudible, Jenny calls attention to the fact that as humans understand more and more about the interdependence of plants and animals in nature, we are still often searching for our place in the environment.
Read more in Centerstage Chicago.
Hal Rammel: Regional Light: Both Near and Far
November 14 – December 14
Audible Gallery at ESS, 5925 N. Ravenswood.
Free
Hal Rammel’s haunting, cameraless photography is presented in a new exhibition at Audible Gallery. Layered images are achieved by combining photogram processes with low-tech pinhole camera methods. Rammel extends multiple-exposure techniques into sequential, in-camera imaging, stacking and blending frame upon frame with a difficulty and unpredictability that exploits the potential of unforeseen results. The resultant black-and-white images evoke dreamlike narratives and imaginary landscapes. Investigation of the impromptu image fascinates Rammel; in his words, “Such discoveries offer photography a world that exceeds capture and comprehension, that reveals the least in its greatest concentration and that may be fixed only in transient shadows.”
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