Sonic

Sonic Self ! Celebrating the spirit of public unrest through multimedia art

@ CHELSEA ART MUSEUM
Home of the Miotte Foundation
556 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
212.255.0719
http://www.chelseaartmuseum.org

In a time of increasing demonstrations and acts of ‘civil disobedience’, new, creative forms of expression are emerging and shaping our collective consciousness. Occupy Wall Street, a spontaneous movement for political and economic change, has opened our eyes and unified us. The immediacy and open nature of the movement creates a need for strong, individual audio-visual expression…

Sonic Self! will bring together local and international musicians, video/multimedia performers, and visual artists to facilitate the development and exchange of innovative ideas and practices in contemporary 'Social Networking' Art discipline – in response to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Event/Exhibition Program:

Saturday, October 15, 2011 6-9pm:

- A music performance by Sofia Run
- A Sound Art Performance by Damian Catera: EOH v.5a
- A Sound Art Performance by Melissa Lokwood & Oyewole
- Music Performance by 10 Dead 2 Wounded

Sunday, October 16, 2011 5-8pm:

- Music performance by Jazztronic Duo FILTER KINGZ (featuring James Avatar of CHRONIC ELECTRONIC ORCHESTRA and Australian pianist PHILLIP GELBACH)
- A music performance by Alternative Pop artist STERLING 8
- Spoken word by RASHEEDA REEVES
- A music performance by King Coyote
- A music performance by International Folk Band
- An art performance by Z Collective
- A music performance by Agent 99

List of Participating Artists

Anna Marie Rockwell
Anton Kandinsky
Ariel Poland
Amy Banker
Cheryl Gross
Kristian Austin
Christian Hooker
Daniel De Paola
Denny Daniel
Erik Henderson
Eugene Rodriguez
Eva Muller
E. McGivern
Fiorentina De Biasi
Haim Elisha
Phil Bell-Kountouris
Igor Molochevski
Jerzy Kubina
Abraham Lubelski
Joel Richardson
John McCarthy
Jillian Maslow
Lily Gavin
Martin Abrahams
Marcos Zotes
Max Nova
Nemanya
Olga Mazurkiewicz
Pandayaro
Paola Ochoa
Piotr Bujak
Prya Reddy
Shelby Voice
Simon Smart
Tal Samson
Ultra Violet
Wolf Geyr

Curated and Organized by:

Jolanta Gora-Wita

In collaboration with:

Marika Maiorova
Anna Harrah
James Avatar
Koshek Swaminathan

 
The Sonic Self
www.thesonicself.org
Loft in the Red Zone

Above: Loft in the Red Zone Past Exhibition Documentary

The Sonic world (an audible space); an emerging intersection between the audio and visual experiences, based on increasing internet and digital technology inventions -- gave the sound a significant stage in the surrounding environment in the multimedia environment of contemporary culture then ever before. The exploration of the sound emergent spaces, time of audio resonance, sound design, audio-visual simulation, virtual dimension, linguistic utterances, musical performance or random ‘noise', becomes an individual expression which could exceed its form in relation to our internal self and sonic influences. As Damian Catera says: “Sound is no longer trapped within the mechanism of the ear; its multidisciplinary aspects are reflected in a blurring of sensory experiences. Sound is tactile, visual, spatial and spiritual. These elements have long been ingrained in the experience of sound since the dawn of humanity.”

Jimmy Hendrix's famous quotation “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace” can certainly also be applied to the Sonic Self' as an underlying and unifying inspiration which brought together many of the participating sound artists from around the world with the main goal that their collaborative projects bridge disparate audio-visual practices and expose their shared languages -- human sonic resonance …

BE YOUR OWN SONIC SELF