This is what I think is good to post about after a few glasses of wine. Look at the size of that thing!

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Sorry for the lack of updates. I’ve been busy doing absolutely nothing (and that included Internet). But one thing I have discovered is Supayana. Yana, the designer, is based in NYC, and her clothes are making me insane with clothes-lust. Will you just look at that shirt?? Adorable. It makes me want to die. I’m following her eBay auctions until I can get to NYC and shake her down for some goods.

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I’ve found that the quality of my daily morning commute usually directly correlates with how my day is going to go. It sets the tone.

Today is going to be interesting.

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If you’re in Chicago, you should probably go see this. Jeff was one of my favorite teachers, and his exhibits are awesome.

In the InterContinental Hotel – Chicago, exploring the sound of ‘silence’
EXHIBITION DATES: NOV. 7 – 13, 2005
International artist Jeff Talman will mount a new installation in an exhibition that explores the sonic resonance of the InterContinental Hotel atrium. In this site-specific sound work Talman exposes the nuances embedded in the ‘silence’ of the 4-story, dome-capped space.

‘In Transit’ features the actual resonant frequencies of the atrium extracted from the room tone or ‘silence’ of the site. Installed in the hotel atrium, the installation feeds the site resonance back into the space. Because the resonance is perfectly tuned to the site it is naturally amplified by the space. The results are a re-resonating sound field in which the inherent sonic ‘presence’ of the atrium itself is brought forward for the listener as intuitive notions of sound and spatial perception are enhanced.

Regarding the title, Talman noted, “We are constantly in transit – moving through spaces – with too many other concerns to spend much time reflecting on where we are, where we have come from, and where we are going. When we do reflect on our surroundings, we acquire the sense of a place largely through visual perception. But our place-sense is also highly dependent on the self-sound of a site, of which we have a much lower consciousness, perhaps only an intuitive grasp. By emphasizing this unique place sound I hope to make available a larger, instinctive sense of site that is fundamental to our perception of the world.”

Talman’s other new soundspace installation, ‘Absolute Elsewhere,’ which is based on similar properties of site resonance, opens three days later on November 10 in St. James Cathedral, which is near the hotel. The two installations coincide with the Nineteenth Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, which is one of the installations’ sponsors along with the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Emerson College, Boston where Talman teaches. He is represented by bitforms in New York City.

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