Aug 08 2007
SoundWalk2007
I am pleased to announce that I will be participating in the 4th Annual SoundWalk. This one-night event presents a variety of conceptual, performance, sculptural, and site-specific installation works on the streets, businesses, galleries, and byways of the East Village, in Long Beach, CA. All works use sound in one way or another.
I have had the good fortune to have participated in the previous three events. In the first two, I presented kenetic sculptures and, last year, sat in on a performance by the Hop Frog Kollectiv.
This year, I’m pushing my own creative boundaries, but won’t be able to tell you more. You’ll just have to come and experience things for yourself.
From the organizers:
F L O O D
Presents
SoundWalk2007
On September 22, 2007, the Long Beach artist group, FLOOD, will present SoundWalk2007,
featuring artists from the Southland and the international scene. This event operates under the concept of a one-night aural/visual experience as provided by a walking-tour of sound installations and soundmarks located in various indoor and outdoor spaces situated throughout the East Village Arts District in Downtown Long Beach. The artworks will combine in multiple ways a wide range of visual, performative and audio components. There will be sculptures, environments, installations and performances.
About SoundWalk2007
SoundWalk is an annual art event produced by the Long Beach artist group, FLOOD, as a variation of the “ArtWalk” events that take place every 2nd Saturday in the Arts District of Long Beach. Artists and viewers alike passionately embraced the inaugural event, SoundWalk 2004, with thirty artists participating and nearly a thousand visitors joining together for the evening walking-tour. Many visitors, who had no prior encounter with sound-art, were overwhelmingly enthusiastic in their responses. Now in our fourth year, we continue to explore this unique environmental experience with new and returning artists participating in the transformation of our downtown Long Beach space. Outdoor soundmarks add a layer to and perform in concert with sounds of the city, thus intermingling with and altering the local soundscape. Unlikely combinations of the ordinary and the extraordinary enter into chance encounters with the attending public. Galleries and stores within the Arts District will accommodate a variety of indoor installations, creating uncommon intersections of art and commerce. This evening dedicated to sound is not only an exciting moment of transformed perception but a chance to rethink our sensory engagement with the spaces within which we function.
A number of works will be on display for an extended period throughout the month of September at various indoor locations. Once again, we wish to surprise, puzzle, enchant as well as engage those who intentionally and unintentionally participate in SoundWalk 2007. This event is free to the public and is being sponsored in part by the Downtown Long Beach Business Associates (DLBA), The Arts Council for Long Beach, The East Village Association (EVA) and The City of Long Beach.
About FLOOD
The artist group, FLOOD has been working on installation projects for the last four years. FLOOD is interested in testing the limits of artistic expression through collaboration and experimentation within a variety of artistic genres. Current members of FLOOD are Kamran Assadi, Shea M Gauer, Frauke von der Horst, Scott A Peterson, Shelley RuggThorp and Marco Schindelmann.
Works by the following artists/groups will be presented:
Albert Ortega | Arcanum | Elonda Billera | Bycycle Bell Ensemble | Andrew Bucksbarg and Charlie Hoyt | Madelyn Byrne, Ellen Weller, Randy Hoffman | RS-232 | Miha Ciglar | Daniel Corral | Christiaan Cruz | Phillip Curtis | Fret De Wilde | Aaron Drake | david drodge | Charles Erwin | ETEREUM | FLOOD | Flourescent Grey | lindsey foster | Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko | Luis Garcia and Matt Bridges | Josh Goldman | GirlCharlie and Monica Ryan | Kate and Lee Harding | Autumn Hays | Kate Henningsen | Chung Shih Hoh | john hannenberg | Lewis Keller | David Kendall | Mannlicher Carcano | midnight gardeners | Surrealestate | Jim McAuley | Thomas Anthony McDermott | MLuM | James N Orsher | Adam Overton | Kevin Paul | Doug Pearsall | Snezana and Vid Petrovic | phog Masheeen | Sabine Pinkepank | Gary Raymond | Nicole C Russell | Erin Scott | Tristan Shone and Braden Diotte | Tom Skelly | Tom Sky | smgsap | Philip Stearns | Markle and Strauss | Robert Strong | Noah Thomas | Nina Waisman | Sander Roscoe Wolff | Yann Novak & Gretchen Bennett | Carry Yury, Lindsay Ljungkull and Marya Alford | Robert Malin
WHAT: Long Beach’s fourth annual sound art event, “SoundWalk 2007”, a one-night walking-tour of soundmarks and installations by over 50 local and international sound artists.
WHERE: Throughout the area encompassed by Broadway, Atlantic Avenue, Ocean Boulevard, and Elm Street in the East Village Arts District of Downtown Long Beach, in a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces.
WHEN: Saturday, September 22, 2007 from 5 – 10 pm
ADMISSION: Free
PARKING: Metered parking is available on the street. After 6pm, parking is free