Audible Gallery
Shawn Decker
Motion Studies (Prairie)
Audible Gallery at ESS
August 27 – September 19, 2010
Gallery hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1-5PM
or weekdays by appointment.
ESS is pleased to present the preliminary version of Motion Studies (Prairie), a large-scale sound installation that furthers Shawn Decker’s investigation of simple sounds combined with architectonics, landscape, and unpredictable patternmaking. A field of thin rods, each with a small loudspeaker and motor, produces clicking sounds and slight quivers in computer-generated patterns. The effect is like the unified yet always anomalous swaying movements encountered in windblown prairies with tall grass or in Midwestern wheat fields, all the more evocative because of the elegant minimalist finish of the installation’s sculptural/kinetic elements.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Shawn Decker is a composer and artist in Chicago who creates sound and electronic media installations and writes music for live performance, film, and video. His work has been frequently performed, seen, and heard in the US and Europe at a wide variety of venues, including solo and collaborative works presented in Finland, Germany, Japan, Chicago, Indianapolis, Houston, and many others. He teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
About Audible
Audible at ESS is a public space and gallery for exhibitions, meetings, workshops, performances, and artists projects. A simple 400-square-foot space at street level, the space is not only used for ESS programs and events, but is also open to proposals by artists, organizations, and community members.
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