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Quantum Echoes

Jenn Grossman

“Quantum Echoes” will explore the notion of the eternal through a multi-channel sound installation. How can the effects of sound shift our perception from timed to timeless? Directly enacting Pauline Oliveros’s “Deep Listening” theories, John Cage’s philosophies on silence and meditation, Steve Reich’s method of gradual composition, and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s thoughts on the self-contained moment, the installation will blur our boundaries of time and space.

[Mar 28-30] Jenn Grossman: Quantum Echoes

Jenn Grossman
Fri, Mar 28 2014, 7pm: Reception
Sat/Sun, Mar 29/30, noon to 6pm: Installation
Admission: FREE

Location:
Harvestworks
596 Broadway, #602 | New York, NY 10012 | Phone: 212-431-1130
Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R Prince, 6 Bleeker

“Quantum Echoes” will explore the notion of the eternal through a multi-channel sound installation. How can the effects of sound shift our perception from timed to timeless? Directly enacting Pauline Oliveros’s “Deep Listening” theories, John Cage’s philosophies on silence and meditation, Steve Reich’s method of gradual composition, and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s thoughts on the self-contained moment.

Both “musical” and “non-musical” recordings taken from unrelated times and places will be compiled into a singular, but evolving composition. A variety of processing techniques that “stretch” sound will be applied as to give the illusion of expansion, reflecting the perceptual shift from “focal” to “global” attention.

BIO: Jenn is a sound installation artist/experimental musician who lives and works in NYC. This piece is the culmination of her Masters studies at NYU.

Jenn Grossman

Jenn Grossman is an audiovisual artist, experimental composer, and
sound sculptor based in Brooklyn, NY. She is concerned with the expansive physical
and psycho-spatial potentials of sensory experience within a culture of
commodification, turning the mundane into the transportive and other-worldly. With
sound sculpture, she expands “every-day” industrial objects and materials into
affective, emotive, expressive vessels, by giving them a voice or spirit-hood
through sound. In her audiovisual works, she creates sublime, ephemeral experiences
working with media to stretch time and space. Her work has ranged from sound and
video sculpture to audiovisual installation, light events, experimental music
composition, public architectural interventions and live performance. She’s held
residencies at I-Park Foundation, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, presented
audio works & research at festivals, museums and conferences such as the Black
Mountain College Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image and the New York Transit
Museum, the Megapolis Audio Festival, the Cistern Dreams at the Deep Listening
Institute, the Global Composition Conference, the Women In/Women on Sound Symposium,
galleries such as Microscope Gallery and Arete Gallery, and unconventional public
locations for Make Music NY, She’s recently presented at SARC’s Sonic Lab with the
Irish Sound, Science, & Technology Association, Roulette’s MATA festival, the Light
Matter Film Festival, and the Re-Embodied Sound Symposium at EMPAC. She
independently curates live performance and art events with her organization, WISE
(Women Innovating Sound Experience), which highlights women and non-binary artists
working experimental sound and media arts.

John Cage

Philosophies on silence and meditation.

Steve Reich

Method of gradual composition.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Thoughts on the self-contained moment.