Felt Has Feelings:
an interactive installation of autonomous sonic inventions
by
Bryan DayOpening Reception Jan 10, FREE
Artist’s reception 6pm
Interview and Performance 7pm
@ the Window Gallery
55 Taylor St SF
a partnership of the Center fro New Music & thingamajigs.org
Works on display through Jan
Mon-Fri, 9-5 and durring performances
Bryan Day is a improviser, instrument inventor, illustrator and installation artist based in Richmond, CA. His work involves combining elements of the natural and man-made world using field recordings, custom audio generation software and homemade instruments. Dayís work explores the parallels between the patterns and systems in nature to those in contemporary society.
“For 'Felt Has Feelings' I will be presenting a collection of invented instruments spanning the last 15 years. These run from the oldest piece displayed, a metal-contact controlled synthesizer, featuring three separate square wave oscillators, to ultra-portable frame instruments, to interactive sound quilts. My newest pieces in this show are semi-autonomous stringed and friction instrument. Pitches are controlled by electromagnets and the percussive manipulations of filaments controlled by microcontroller. Cameras process nearby movement and translate it into physical sound.”
Day has toured throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, Argentina and Mexico, performing both solo as Sistrum and Eloine and in the Shelf Life and Seeded Plain ensembles.
Festival appearances include Thingamajigs Festival (San Francisco, 2013), New Media Sound and Art Summit (Austin, 2013), Milwaukee Noise Festival (Milwaukee, 2012), Denver Noise Festival (Denver, 2011), Heliotrope Festival (Minneapolis, 2010), Megapolis Festival (Baltimore, 2010), Denver Noise Festival (Denver, 2010), Transistor Festival (Denver, 2009), Quiet Music Festival (Cork, Ireland, 2008), Sonic Circuits Festival (Washington, D.C., 2007), Soundfield Festival (Chicago, 2005), and SubZero Festival (Minneapolis, 2001). Day has over 40 solo and ensemble releases on labels such as Creative Sources, Bug Incision, Friends and Relatives, Gameboy, Freedom From, Digitalis, Featherspines, Neus-318, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Unread, and Seagull.
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The Window Gallery presents the work of contemporary makers of unusual and newly invented musical instruments, including emerging artists as well as recognized pioneers. The emphasis is on originality in concept and design, recognizing the seminal role of the search for new sounds in the expansion of musical horizons. Equally essential to the exhibits are notions of beauty, craft, and humor.
The Window Gallery is a collaboration of the Center for New Music and Thingamajigs, curated by Bart Hopkin and David Samas. Located at 55 Taylor Street in San Francisco, the gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday, 9 am - 5 pm, and during performances.
http://centerfornewmusic.com/gallery/
Cost: FREE