EXHIBITION APRIL 29 - MAY 12, 2008

MAJOR EVENTS MON MAY 12, 3 PM - MIDNIGHT:

• LECTURE BY PAMELA Z, 3 PM WANG CENTER CHAPEL
• GALLERY RECEPTION 5-7, SAC ART GALLERY, STUDENT ACTIVITIES CENTER
• CONCERT, 7:30 PM WANG CENTER THEATRE
• DJ/VJ PARTY, UNIVERSITY CAFE
  

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Sound is ever-present.  Auditory mediation pervades life in the digital age — from soundtracks to mobile telephones and mp3 players. Sound indexes past times and distant places. It is texture, the unseen fabric of our environment, often lying just beyond our conscious perception. Sonic Residues creates spaces to reflect on the relationships shaped by sonic production and reproduction. Here sound streams across networks, interrupts spaces, and shapes private dreamscapes. It is produced by transcoding and translation.  It is generated from bodies both artificial and natural, transmuted into images and objects.  It is stretched and compressed, imagined and heard. It invites us to consider the habits and processes of listening, and to develop a critical understanding of the sites and locations of sound. Sonic Residues creates spaces to reflect on the relationships shaped by sonic production and reproduction. It combines a concert performance, gallery exhibit, portable media works, and lectures as different vehicles with which to explore these “sonic residues.”

The Sonic Residues Exhibition will take place in the Student Activities Center Art Gallery at Stony Brook University from April 29th to May 12th, 2008. The exhibition includes works by Luke DuBois, Grady Gerbracht, Takafumi Ide, Stephen Lee, Annea Lockwood, Nick Fox-Gieg and Christina McPhee, Nobuho Nagasawa, Timothy Nohe, Jxel Rajchenberg, and others. There will also be a segment of European sound and video pieces curated by Valerie Vivancos. In addition, projects for personal media players will be available for download at the www.sonicresidues.net website.

The Sonic Residues Concert will take place in the Wang Center Theatre at Stony Brook University on May 12 at 7:30. The show includes Ray Anderson, Matthew Burtner, Martin Loyato, Odd Nosdam, Video Savant, Kinesthetech Sense, Radio Wonderland, Pamela Z, and other musicians. The concert will be followed by an DJ/VJ Party at the University Café, featuring music by Odd Nosdam and video by Luke DuBois.

The Sonic Residues Lecture Series includes: Luke DuBois (Keynote Speaker), March 26th at 3pm at the Humanities Institute, Rm. 1006; Melissa Ragona, May 7th at 4 pm in the Humanities Institute, Rm. 1006; and Pamela Z, May 12th at 3pm in the Wang Center Chapel.

Organized by the Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture and Technology (cDACT) at Stony Brook University: Christa Erickson, Director; Margaret Schedel, Music, and Zabet Patterson, Art.

For further information, please contact Sean Connolly at (631) 632-1056 or sonicresidues@gmail.com. Directions to Stony Brook can be found at http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/directions.shtml.

Special thanks to: Sean Connolly, Joe Esser, Alanna Regan, Ha Na Lee, Andrew Uroskie, Takafumi Ide, Dan Weymouth, SBU Music Department, Wang Center staff, Mike Hershkowitz, Andy Nitolli, Travis Ellrott, Grady Gerbracht, Stephen Lee, Amy Yopp Sullivan, Frank Russell, Peter Gorneault, Jeanette Yew, Phil Salathe, Stephanie Dinkins, Judy Lochead, James Pearson, Keith Miller, and SAC Gallery staff.

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