Dan and I recently collaborated on a sonic sculptural piece for a show at 119 Gallery in Lowell, MA.
The theme and title of the show is "Guts". We set about cannabalizing existing work from our repertoire in the studio and combined our individual aesthetics with broken, discarded technologies to create a vision of post-apocalyptic carnage.
The pile of twisted and exploded viscera is at once a festive, puppet-like animation with soft Christmas-y red felt and glistening green and silver circuit boards,
and a revolting disemboweling resembling special effects borrowed from
John Carpenter's"The Thing".
The whole mess is splayed out on the floor in front of a tower of amplifiers which play an unsettling, subtly shifting, crunching drone which is produced from hand-sculpted electronic devices (one encased in something resembling a sizable tumor, one which mimics an improvised explosive device) which hang in front of a speaker they feedback into.
