VANCOUVER – A photo/sound installation and site-specific vocal performances by the WSU Vancouver Flash Choir will keep December humming, thanks to 2010 Creative Media and Digital Culture Artist in Residence Ethan Rose.
Along with students from the CMDC program at WSU Vancouver, he will launch the installation at 605 Main St. in downtown Vancouver Dec. 3-12. The performances, featuring 30 members of the Flash Choir with iPods at City Hall in Portland, Ore., will be Dec. 4-5.
“Placing” is a photo/sound installation featuring a series of images and flat-panel speakers. It will explore the intersection of voice, spatial acoustics and technology. The recorded sounds and photographs are situated according to the acoustic qualities of the gallery to draw attention to the physically employed methods of spatial/vocal transformation.
This highly experimental exhibit of sound art will be the first of its kind in Vancouver. The installation will open 5:30-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3. It will run 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 4, 5, 10, 11 and 12. CMDC students will work as docents in the gallery to talk about the work and answer questions.
For more information visit www.betweenroomsandvoices.com/placing.html.
“Between Rooms and Voices” is a site-specific vocal performance featuring the Flash Choir. Synchronized iPods will provide each performer with a set of distinct instructions that guide their vocalizations and movements throughout the rooms, stairwells and alcoves of City Hall.
The iPods function as the fulcrum between recorded sound and physical performance, facilitating the acoustic blend of voice and architecture into unified moments of sonic transformation.
Performances will be at 2 and 3:30 p.m. on Dec 4 and 5. Tickets are free and can be reserved in advance. For more information visit www.betweenroomsandvoices.com.
Rose joined CMDC in fall 2010 as the program’s fourth artist in residence. His work reflects an interest in old technologies, new sounds and the restless exploration of musical form.
Over the past 10 years he has released recordings, scored films, performed internationally, created sound installations and worked with a variety of collaborators. Drawing from his interests in musique concrete, chance operations and American minimalism, Rose creates shifting sound environments that merge the old with the new.
The Creative Media and Digital Technology program at Washington State University Vancouver integrates critical thinking, creativity and computing skills with course work in the arts, humanities and social sciences to offer a broad-based, interdisciplinary degree that prepares students for a culturally diverse, technologically complex 21st century.
Learn more about the program at www.vancouver.wsu.edu/programs/dtc/.