On Saturday I went to a sound performance, "Music for Incandescent Events," by Sarah Peebles and Rob Cruickshank. A bunch of us stood around on the rooftop pation at DeLeon White gallery at pre-dusk. As the light in the sky dimmed, a sensor in a little yellow, waterproof box picked up the change and triggered mp3s of Peebles playing a Japanese mouth organ called a sho. Not being trained at the subleties of sound, I found the tones quite simple and near-ambient. The piece progressed for about 20 minutes as the sun set, stopping when the sky became dark and the first couple of stars started to twinkle. It was a very pretty sky and an unusual experience to just stand quietly with a bunch of people and watch light change colour ... reminiscent of James Turell. Red clouds eased into blue and black. Buildings became silhouettes. The earth spun to the east and it all got colder and darker. Happens every day.
Thanks for coming out! I didn't know about James Turell- those look very cool. Years ago, when I had a job fixing news cameras, we used to have a device for calibrating them that was a hollow sphere with a white powder coating on the inside, and a square aperture to point the camera into. The idea was to get a completely even white field. To look into that hole was to come face-to-face with the void. If my boss had known how much time i spent staring into that thing, i would have been fired on the spot.
|
On Saturday I went to a sound performance, "Music for Incandescent Events," by Sarah Peebles and Rob Cruickshank. A bunch of us stood around on the rooftop pation at DeLeon White gallery at pre-dusk. As the light in the sky dimmed, a sensor in a little yellow, waterproof box picked up the change and triggered mp3s of Peebles playing a Japanese mouth organ called a sho. Not being trained at the subleties of sound, I found the tones quite simple and near-ambient. The piece progressed for about 20 minutes as the sun set, stopping when the sky became dark and the first couple of stars started to twinkle. It was a very pretty sky and an unusual experience to just stand quietly with a bunch of people and watch light change colour ... reminiscent of James Turell. Red clouds eased into blue and black. Buildings became silhouettes. The earth spun to the east and it all got colder and darker. Happens every day.
- sally mckay 10-12-2004 5:35 pm
Thanks for coming out! I didn't know about James Turell- those look very cool. Years ago, when I had a job fixing news cameras, we used to have a device for calibrating them that was a hollow sphere with a white powder coating on the inside, and a square aperture to point the camera into. The idea was to get a completely even white field. To look into that hole was to come face-to-face with the void. If my boss had known how much time i spent staring into that thing, i would have been fired on the spot.
- rob (guest) 10-12-2004 11:19 pm