A sonic exploration of Deleuze’s philosophical principle, The Fold. A sound will travel through a conch shell to its center and then back out again.   About the Artist: Alexandra Gilwit is a video artist and writer from Baltimore, MD. Through the New School, she became more acquainted with sound design and looks forward to […]

“Deepest Taco Bell” is a sonic exploration into an experience very often looked down upon by the large part of society. Taco Bell is known by most to be a site of sub-par fast food, fluorescent lights, and commercialism. However, what co-exists with these negative notions is a positive: a diverse array of people. Customers and employees […]

This installation, a tribute to Hector Wallace, Coney Island’s great sign painter and raconteur, is also a memory piece about the pre-gentrified Coney Island I loved when I was a child. The audio interview with Wally was done on the boardwalk in 2005 for SIDE SHOW, an exhibition of my biographical installations inspired by the […]

The sound you’re hearing is TNS’ logo in JPEG form, the raw data was then translated directly into sound using a special algorithm in Audacity’s import settings. I added reverb in the style of Tischman Auditorium using a room emulator. I wanted to explore the hidden sonic signature that can be associated with digital objects, […]

Most of us understand sound to exist as forces and flows of pressure bending and moving through resonant substances. This experimental audio portrait seeks to reorient the human listener’s thought for a moment to ponder what it might mean politically for these vibrations and necessary resonant materials to exist in themselves. This project features the […]

Adonis and Aphrodite This sound documentary is about the repetition and monotony that is the life of the gym – you go 3-5 times a week, you have 10-15 repetitions of 3 sets which you do with several weights, then you might go for a run for 20 minutes all while staying in one place. […]

Sound art piece, completed as my senior capstone project for the senior seminar led by Robert Sember. A recording was prepared that asked 13 student volunteers to react to several prompts using noise, while being recorded. Thewords were 1) emptiness 2) suffering 3) liberation. Each of the 3 sets of 13 responses were composed together […]

Utilizing a single sound sample ran through multiple permutations of manipulation, editing and recontextualization, tetrad consists of a series of folds, re-evaluating a sound through its own passage through space, and each minuscule detail of the sound form to drive new, generative sonic processes. This work is composed entirely from the sound of a single […]

Performance. The score of John Cage’s 0’00” (1962) reads: In a situation provided with maximum amplification, perform a disciplined action. This realization of 0’00” involves 5 maximally amplified contact microphones, connected to keys on the performer’s laptop.  The return key and the C, A, G, and E keys are amplified (in honor of the tradition, […]

Performance The title for the proposed piece is taken from the Orwell essay, which concludes, “Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” “Politics and […]

Sound In Time and Place: Music and Architecture This is a class created by Diane Moser at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in the Fall of 2013 The class was put together for the sole purpose of composing music based on the elements of the New School University Center on Fifth Avenue in New York City. […]

Our collective, Fantastic Futures is a collaborative team of students, artists, doctors, and future leaders from Iraq and the United States. For our recently completed Rhizome Commission, we created a free and open online sound archive that examines concepts of time through the recording, collaging, and sharing of sounds between these two countries. As we […]

This video responds to the theme of the exhibition — Earlids. What enables us to focus on listening? And when we DO focus, what do we hear? In this case the act of planting four mute speakers in the snow, a neutral ground, provides an opportunity to capture sound in three ways. First, this simple […]

  “The River” is part one of Winters Past, a transmedia storytelling project that grapples with a changing natural world through personal experience, memory and history.  Through the medium of a Soundwalk, a form of site-specific storytelling that integrates oral history, sound design, field recordings and music into a narrative that unfolds in situ, Winters Past […]

– Super-8mm, 11 minutes, 2012. A study of three similar but distinct microcultures: the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge. Interrogated through the use of contact microphones, the physical infrastructures of these bridges become audible and reveal their inherent macroacoustics. The film treats the bridge as an anthropological body for discourse, as a physiology […]

This project was produced as a part of Suzanne Snider’s course Experiments in Oral History in the fall of 2012. It is an audio essay about a young man Brandon, and his parents’ experience following a bike accident, coma, and an evacuation from Bellevue hospital during hurricane Sandy. The piece is made from two long-form […]

60×60 is a project containing 60 compositions each 60 seconds in length. Founded by Rob Voisey in 2003, 60×60 presents a slice of the contemporary music scene by representing 60 diverse works. Pieces were selected from an international pool of emerging and established composers and sound artists. The resulting mix is broadcast, without interruption, as a continuous […]

This is a soundscape with accompanying video. The audio comprises field recordings in and around the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York, one of the most polluted waterways in the US. The title comes from a conversation I had with Eymund Diegel, who took me out on the canal by canoe. Eymund is an Urban […]

Persono Persono is a conceptual and interactive sound-art installation. Falling sand and spinning motors play guitars, creating a peaceful, patterned drone. Viewers will have the ability to be part of the installation in a way that will add to the experience for all if they choose. Conceptually, Persono utilizes “infinite” and “finite” elements to both […]

ECO(SOUND)SYSTEM: Suite 1: The Seed is a 30 minute mixtape weaving together field recordings, music, poetry and LP samples. Elements of musique concrete and sound collage are employed to explore urban sound ecology and and the human relationship with nature & technology. Eco(sound)system is part of a larger interactive art installation which made its debut […]

The Awkward Listener is a participatory performance. It explores the relationship between sounds, awkward intimacy, the act of listening and movement of the body. The piece will consist of handmade speakers with limited volume in order to demand a specific type of listening from the audience. The sounds are to be explore in limited body […]

Presentation Function Time presents an ‘auralization’ of the computer program as a means to create deeper understanding of the timescales at which software operates. Many projects have created software visualizations, but where the visual emphasizes the objectivity of distance, sound is visceral: we hear inside our skulls, a song can “get in our head”. The […]

2013, Digital Prints She Surrounds Us explores personal geographies. These photographic pieces have been manipulated by resonances of the human voice with a single image processed by projecting sonic waveforms into it. Using time and a continuous stream of yelling, the woman depicted distorts, eventually becoming unrecognizable.

Re: Search is the culmination of Sam Sebren’s 2013 Wave Farm Residency, which he spent researching the history of transmission arts, radio, noise, performance, and the politics of radio. Through an immersion into the Wave Farm Study Center library collection of books and recordings, Sebren created a quasi, “non” documentary, open-narrative, audio collage using a collection […]

Walk Down on Broadway On last April 11th I walked through the whole extension of Broadway Avenue in Manhattan with a field recorder, registering the sounds happening as I passed by the different neighborhoods. This process resulted in an six hours long soundwalk, which I edited down to different sound collages corresponding to different neighborhoods […]

The Reduced Listening Player is a sample bank that represents many audio clips collected by the students of the course Sound Matters from 2012 and 2013. After reading the Michel Chion text The Three Listening Modes, each student is asked to record 20 sound samples between 1 and 10 seconds in length that can be […]

Generally, an audio podcast refers to a recorded sound file made available for download through a digital broadcasting medium, while its process is commonly approached as a mere technical matter or an information and communication technologies affordance following the co-evolution of the internet, personal computers, portable audio players and Rich Site Summary (RSS) feed. More […]

Wave Farm Artistic Director, Tom Roe, and recent artist-in-residence, Sam Sebren, present during a special event on January 29, 2014, in conjunction with the exhibition Earlids. Tom Roe Tom Roe is the Artistic Director of Wave Farm and a transmission artist, who works frequently with radio and sound. He co-founded microradio station 87X in Tampa, Florida; and, with Greg […]