Shyan Kishore, Eric Vaughan, Vladimir Kolyada

Title: Bali Jam 2

Category: Audio

One-liner: Improvised musical collaboration


Silence Quote: “Silence is the potential of sound, and the space for it's birth as creative expression and provocation.”

A FEW WORDS:

This piece of music was born from three musicians' love for expressing and communicating with sound via their chosen instruments. We feel this piece is relevant to the project because it is a 'powerful' piece in the sense that it influences strong emotional reactions, and because throughout there is a strong suggestion of the 'silence' that supports it's animation as creative audio expression.


LINKS:

Shyan Kishore

www.soundcloud.com/shyan-kishore

www.facebook.com/ShyanBansuriFlute

Youtube: Shyan Kishore and Yangjin Lamu, Shyan Kishore

Erik Vaughan

www.shokanflutes.com

www.soundcloud.com/eric-vaughan

Vladimir Kolyada

www.facebook.com/vladimir.kolyada.18

WORKS:

Sasha Raphael Vom Dorp & Eric Rosse

Title: Synesthesia - Sound Bending Light

Category: Video

One-liner: This video is an exact result in time of the musical vibrations that created it - as seen through the Sound Illuminator, which uses sunlight and tone sensitive LED lights for illumination.

Silence Quote: ”Silence only truly exists where there is no matter, but we can endeavor to silence the mind by being in the moment.”


A FEW WORDS:

I’ve made this work to better know my place in the universe. Our ability to travel the cosmos being limited, I’ve built a machine in an attempt to observe elemental transactions. I’ve created a mechanical solution to what is a metaphysical problem, forcing basic elements of perception - sound, light, and matter - into a singular experience. This is a video of sound encountering light as seen through the medium of water. On one hand, I’ve staged common phenomena and on the other hand I’ve captured tiny cataclysms never to be repeated. I bring you evidence of a minute history, in which no instance is petty and every instant too complex to perceive in its entirety. A moment is all time, an atom the universe. This video aims to capture the beauty and turmoil that occurs inside the most pedestrian events. Light bounces on water, sound waves march toward oblivion.


LINKS:

www.sashavomdorp.com

WORKS:

Tom Beddard

Title: Surface Detail

Category: Video

One-liner: A myriad of details in an evolving fractal landscape.

Silence Quote: ”Silence is the lack of superfluous distraction whilst completely absorbed in your own thoughts.”


A FEW WORDS:

The work is an exploration showing how 'resonances' in the complex parameter landscape of fractals can create surprising structures ranging from organic to geometric. It is intended to be a peacefully mesmerizing journey.


LINKS:

www.subblue.com

WORKS:

Gordon Hempton

Title: Earth’s rarest nature sounds

Category: Audio

One-liner: Sounds from some of the most silent places on earth.

Silence Quote: ”Real quiet is presence - not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise.”

A FEW WORDS:

I am acoustic ecologist and care very deeply about quiet. As the Sound Tracker® I have circled the globe three times over the last 30 years in pursuit of Earth’s rarest nature sounds—sounds which can only be fully appreciated in the absence of manmade noise. Silence is an endangered species.

LINKS:

http://soundtracker.com

https://quietplanet.com

https://soundcloud.com/quietplanet

WORKS:

John Stuart Reid

Title: Living Cell and Star Sound --made visible

Category: Video

One-liner: CymaScope videos of the 'song' of a living cell and of Star HR3831A.

Silence Quote: "Silence--the absence of sound--is not possible on Earth, even in laboratory conditions, however, quiet environments, such as the a landscape far away from human habitation, provides a soothing balm for the soul."


A FEW WORDS:

The 'song' of a living cell and the sound of star HR3831A were made visible with a CymaScope instrument to study their inherent geometry; crucially, there are striking resemblances, providing proof to the ancient saying: 'as above, so below'. Both CymaScope videos reveal the beauty inherent in the sounds of Nature, beauty that represents the power of sound to touch the soul.

Living cell

Living cells create sound as a natural aspect of their metabolic process and each type of cell has a unique 'song' that changes when the cell is stressed. Termed 'sonocytology', this new science has been pioneered by Dr James Gimzewski and may hold great potential for medical diagnosis and therapy in the future. An Atomic Force Microscope is employed to 'listen' to the sounds of cells. In this short video the sound of a healthy yeast cell has been made visible on the CymaScope instrument, revealing complex geometrical features.

Star sound

Atomic processes create sounds within stars, which minutely modulate the star's light. This 'star song' radiates across the Cosmos and asteroseismologists on earth are able to retrieve the song by a process of demodulation, helping them to learn more about the star.

The CymaScope is able to make visible the sonic signature of stars from sound files prepared by astrophysicists, and the resulting dynamic geometries may provide a useful analog for students.


LINKS:

https://www.cymascope.com

john@sonic-age.com

WORKS:

Dr. Donald Kurtz

Title: Sounds of star "HR3831"

Category: Audio

One-liner: Stars - the silent ‘lights’ in the sky - actually are not silent, but they each have their own timbre made up of thousands or even millions of different frequencies.

Silence Quote: ”I have not heard true silence for 15 years, as I have tinnitus. There is no escape. For those of you who can hear silence: seek it, savour it. For you, too, there may come a time when silence is but a distant memory.”


A FEW WORDS:

Through asteroseismology - the study of the internal structure of pulsating stars - we know that there is a real music of the spheres. The stars have sounds in them that we use to see right to their very cores. Dr. Donald Kurtz, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Central Lancashire, has observed over 2000 nights with some of the largest telescopes of the world. He is the discoverer of a class of pulsating, magnetic stars that are the most peculiar stars known, the rapidly oscillating Ap stars.


LINKS:

http://www.star.uclan.ac.uk

Asteroseismology - The Songs of the Stars - UCLan

WORKS:

Linze Yarbrough

Title: You Can't Learn Anything on Cocaine

Category: Audio

One-liner: Artist Joseph Beuys lecturing in English made nearly incomprehensible by sounds of movement and doors opening and shutting down a long hallway.

Silence Quote: "Silence is a space for raising vibrations. I feel silence when my mind is clear and I am able to be in the present moment enjoying the now."


A FEW WORDS:

The rhythm of this work provides a trance like state for opening expressive thoughts and feelings created from hearing noises. This piece was created to translate the feeling of indecision and demonstrate the mobility we have for creating our own reality. When we open doors to learning environments we escape toxic situations. This piece, inspired by the vision of Joseph Beuys to expose all people to the power of creativity, is relevant to the Power of Sound because it provides a representation of the mental environment designated for "silence" during times of decision making where “The woman/man who deliberates is lost” (Joseph Addison).


LINKS:

www.linzeyarbrough.wordpress.com

WORKS:

John Carter (Jiva) & Juergen Taruna

Title: Phi Sonic Resonance 64 Hz & Phi Sonic Solar System

Category: Audio

One-liner: Healing sounds/music using Specific Hz frequencies to aid consciousness expansion.

Silence Quote: “Silence; Is the the potential of all sound just as the darkness of the womb gives birth and Dark Matter nourishes what we experience as matter. Silence is also the rests between the musical notes and the beats of drums Thus giving it meaning.”


A FEW WORDS:

This Music was created in Connection to "THE TEMPLATE" work to help Integrate the information assimilated in this ceremonial process. However it is also a stand alone Musical experience that reconnects Our Mind Body and spirit to a broader spectrum of Natural Frequencies generally left out of 440 tuning and equal temperament Scales.


LINKS:

www.thetemplate.org

WORKS:

Veera Voima

Title: Water drops (created by human voice)

Category: Audio

One-liner: Sounds of water drops made with human voice

Silence Quote: ”For me silence is resting time for the ears - as a musician and choir director I need to use my ears a lot.”


A FEW WORDS:

Voice is a very versatile instrument. In folk music singers use their voice in various "ethnical" ways; throat singing, yodeling, overtone singing. An ancient tradition has also been to imitate the sounds of nature. Originally it was believed that humans could magically affect nature through those sounds, for example through making sounds of water drops as part of a "magic rain spell".


LINKS:

www.suomusic.net

WORKS:

Charmaine Ortiz

Title: TYB Gesture

Category: Video

One-liner: TYB Gesture explores the variety of line present within a natural environment. It also seeks to bring an associative awareness to the sound of creating lines to our constructive perception of the landscape.

Silence Quote: ”This video uses sound, but also functions silently. Silence can create a meditative space that is more active than noise. Silence focuses all of your senses rather than entertaining your ears.”


A FEW WORDS:

I created TYB Gesture to explore drawing in other dimensions, outside of its traditional two-dimensional confinement. I wanted others to experience line, feeling it in motion and duration. My piece stimulates other senses like seeing- resonating image with line, texture and touch, feeling the line through the textures and movement. Though the video is silent a constructive process is taking place in the viewer.


LINKS:

www.CharmaineOrtiz.com

WORKS:

Just 2 Guys Creative (Gabriel Ng & Will Good)

Title: Landscapes - The Hoh Rainforest

Category: Video

One-liner: A journey through the beautiful Hoh National Rainforest

Silence Quote: ”Silence is incredibly golden and helps bring the mind to a more balanced place when there is so much nonsense noise (of all kinds) in this world.”


A FEW WORDS:

We created this to inspire the world. To make them aware of the natural beauty that surrounds them.


LINKS:

Www.Just2GuysCreative.com

WORKS:

Julia Robert & Rudi Cole

Title: Contemporary Dance and Partner Work

Category: Video

One-liner: Video of contemporary dance class

Silence Quote: ”Listening within”


A FEW WORDS:

Listening within. Sound is emitted through movement whether the contact of feet on the floor or vibrations of the muscles in the voice box…


LINKS:

http://humanhood.net

WORKS:

Eric Vaughan

Title: Tamuke

Category: Audio

One-liner: Japanese and Indian improvisation on bamboo flutes.

Silence Quote: ”Silence is the space between thought. The moment we are free from the mind. That place between what we remember and what we imagine. A place that only exists in the present moment.”


A FEW WORDS:

This is a collection of improvisations that came out of my own mediation practice as well as the Zen and Hindu traditions. I created it to share that inner state within me and to free emotion from deep inside the listener. Most of these pieces are inspired by the zen tradition played in Japan by the Komuso (priests of emptiness). They were Buddhists monks whose method of practice was to empty themselves by playing suizen (blowing meditation). By imitating the sounds of the forest they would move themselves deep into the stillness or silence of present moment. And eventually into nirvana (liberation).


LINKS:

www.shokanflutes.com

www.soundcloud.com/eric-vaughan

WORKS:

Jeromy Johnson

Title: Continuous "Smart" Meter Pulses

Category: Video

One-liner: Video showing the silent and invisible EMFs through the sound of an EMF meter.

Silence Quote: “Electro-magnetic fields (EMF) are silent and invisible, yet they affect our biology.”


A FEW WORDS:

My work is to help parents reduce the EMF pollution in their lives. Electro-magnetic fields (EMF) are silent and invisible, yet they affect our biology. However, most people cannot sense it. By using special measurement devices, I can make this invisible toxin visible. Once people hear the EMF pollution in their environment, they can begin to understand it and take actions that will protect the health of their children. I created this video to show the invisible through sound.


LINKS:

www.emfanalysis.com

"Wireless wake-up call" on TEDxBerkeley

WORKS:

Outi Ampuja & Participants of the Silence-Survey

Title: Research & Survey on Experiencing Silence in Finland

Category: Research and texts

One-liner: A research by Outi Ampuja collecting people’s textual experiences of silence.

Silence Quote: ”A common place for Finnish people to experience silence is in wilderness, especially in forests.”


A FEW WORDS:

A research and a participatory project in Finland, collecting people’s textual experiences of silence. What silence means for you, and where do you experience it? One of the most common place, where people experience silence, is wilderness, especially in forests.

In the video below, you can see texts from the participants of the survey.

--- "Listen" by Zara Hinders

--- "Presence" by Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen

--- "Bustling" by Maija Virtanen

--- "Care" by Karoliina Vitikainen

--- "Message" by Agnes Koppel-Murto

--- "Nature" by woman (1952)


LINKS:

https://tuhat.halvi.helsinki.fi/portal/en/persons/outi-ampuja%285bab6f5c-4eb3-431c-9c05-94b7584d36dd%29.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/outi-ampuja-32b48646

WORKS:

Jonni Pollard & 1 Giant Mind

Title: 1 Giant Mind Stock Footage

Category: Video

One-liner: Stock footage of silent mass meditation

Silence Quote: "When we meditate together on mass, we connect in a field of profound silence that is pregnant with immense potential for loving and creative connection."


A FEW WORDS:

Project on collective silent meditation experiences and their effects on the human mind and physiology, the environment and society at large.

We are relational beings. We need connection for survival. How we connect determines how well we live. When we connect deeply with love and care, we flourish, when our connection is reactive, we feel disconnected and we suffer for it. Meditation is a practice that enables us to witness our reactiveness and learn to become interactive. When we meditate together on mass, we connect in a field of profound silence that is pregnant with immense potential for loving and creative connection. Love and Creativity are the foundational qualities of our moment-to-moment fulfillment.


LINKS:

www.1giantmind.org

www.jonnipollard.com

WORKS:

Philip Mantione

Title: Valuri

Category: Audio

One-liner: A fixed media sound piece created using custom software written in Max/MSP.

Silence Quote: ”The “power” of silence lies in the vacuum created by nothingness. Silence can only be followed by non-silence and it is the transitional moment that straddles the anticipation of the listener and the manifestation of sound.”


A FEW WORDS:

Valuri was created using custom software written in Max/MSP. The patch generates several periodic waveforms and white noise. Wave generators are activated by randomly determined amplitude envelopes that consider logarithmic, exponential and linear slopes, and varying ramp and sustain times. Similar processes determine frequency and spatialization to create a continually evolving sonority. The Hegelian idea that "nothing" or non-being can be deduced from "being" produced a third concept, "becoming," representing the movement of the mind from one pole to the other. The concept of becoming, unifies being and nothingness. Valuri is a sonic world that explores this notion of becoming. Continual movement, roving the gray between black and white. As with a body of water, subtle movement can be perceived as static, yet stasis can be in perpetual motion.


LINKS:

www.philipmantione.com

http://philipmantione.bandcamp.com/track/valuri

WORKS:

NASA Voyager recordings

Title: Symphonies of the Planets 3

Category: Audio

One-liner: The true ambient space sounds


A FEW WORDS:

A fantastic recording from the space flights of Voyager I & II launched in 1977. The true ambient space sounds that come from electronic vibrations of the planets, moons and rings, electromagnetic fields of the planets and moons, planetary magnetosphere, trapped radio waves bouncing between the planet and the inner surface of it's atmosphere, charged particle interactions of the planet, it's moons and the solar wind, and from charged particle emissions from the rings of certain planets. All sounds are space sounds, there are no engine sounds from the space probes.


LINKS:

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/01nov_ismsounds/

WORKS:

Lizz Brady

Title: Reward if found

Category: Video

One-liner: The work responds to the auditory hallucinations that cause me anxious anguish due to lack of control.

Silence Quote: "I hear and see things that are not there, I wish they were silent, I don't want to hear these voices, but there is no way to stop them."


A FEW WORDS:

My work explores my ill mental health, and the patterns of my manic and depressive episodes.

The submitted sound piece is a direct response to the audio hallucinations that I hear daily. The sounds are warped and muffled, you may even miss them if you do not concentrate, but they are there in the background provoking and picking up on my weaknesses.

If you heard these ‘voices’ would you begin to believe that the sound was real?

The piece is relevant to the Power of Sound because the hallucinations are authoritative and commanding. It relates to the topic of Silence because I wish they were silent; I don't want to hear them but there is no way to stop them.


LINKS:

www.lizzbrady.com

WORKS:

Andy Thomas

Title: Echoes

Category: Video

One-liner: Visualisation of bird sounds using 3D particle software.

Silence Quote: ”Silence to me is like a pause in reality, where I question what my existence truly is for a brief almost unconscious second.”


A FEW WORDS:

This piece was created to give a visual representation to bird sounds. It was created to demonstrate that sounds too can take a visual form, in particular the organic nature of a bird call, borrowing forms from nature that include plants and insects and reformatting them into a moving structure, almost decoding the bird call into something familiar. My visualisation of bird sounds is a chance for nature to talk when the world is silent and for me to listen to her language.


LINKS:

www.andythomas.com.au

WORKS:

Emelia Bates

Title: Remembrance

Category: Video

One-liner: Performative video

Silence Quote: ”Silence is the stillness between sounds.”


A FEW WORDS:

Inspired by sound; this piece elevates a simple action by the insertion of an emotional experience. This piece shows a residue of life, a constantly varying degree of presence and clarity. The swing is almost always in motion, but the forces propelling it are constantly fading and changing. There is a sense of grief, a feeling of memories lost and influences forgotten. This piece plays with the power an emotionally loaded sound has by emphasizing the everyday stillness that surrounds it.


LINKS:

http://cargocollective.com/emeliabates

WORKS:

Franco Castilla

Title: 4'33''

Category: Video

One-liner: A black video with no audio meant to disrupt the consumption of images in our culture and shift the viewers awareness back to themselves and their surroundings.

Silence Quote: ”Silence allows us a greater awareness of the world we live in.”


A FEW WORDS:

This project is inspired by the proliferation of imagery in our culture. There is an ever-growing number of still and moving images distributed through billboards, magazines, televisions, computers, and paintings. In recent years, new technologies including mobile phones, laptops, and wireless Internet connections have allowed us to distribute and consume larger amounts of imagery like never before.

In order to draw attention to the creation and consumption of imagery, I have created works in various media that employ the color black. Black disrupts the illusionistic quality of the screen, be it an actual computer or mobile phone screen, a printed magazine, a billboard, or the 2 dimensional picture plane of a painting. The works also employ a glossy finish, which, together with the black, render the screen mirror-like and reflective. The works negate the illusion of the screen and the reflections point the viewer back to themselves and their immediate surroundings.

A shift in consciousness occurs in the viewer from a mediated viewing experience to an unmediated, mindful experience. My video is a visual and aural silence in a culture that is constantly bombarding us with images and sounds.


LINKS:

www.negationreception.com

www.francocastilla.com

WORKS:

Rosie Bryant / Konstantinos Papakostas

Title: Bodyshots

Category: Video

One-liner: The silence of the flesh

Silence Quote: ”In escapable noise of one’s own silence”


A FEW WORDS:

Even in our own silence we cannot escape sound- the sounds of our bodies, our breath, the blood running through our veins… in fact, each and every atom in our body can be said to be vibrating in resonance.


LINKS:

www.anyotherrose.com

WORKS:

Lucja Grodzicka

Title: Between

Category: Video

One-liner: Photography and Video Project realized in Greenland.

Silence Quote: ”Silence is like the place where I have been realizing this project, you can hear your own thoughts, feelings and stop for a second to think, because of this, silence might be scary, you just need to tame it.”


A FEW WORDS:

It is my answer for feeling isolated, in one of the most beautiful parts of the world, during polar night, windy and snowy winter. With restless and variable nature, massive ice bergs which change the view in every second.


LINKS:

http://lucjagrodzicka.blogspot.co.uk

WORKS:

Katelyn Newman

Title: 1997

Category: Video

One-liner: Fabrication of memory and the creation of reality.

Silence Quote: “White noise represents the absence of silence in our minds, highlighting how we are never able to fully escape our memories, even if they are obscured.”


A FEW WORDS:

While creating this particular work, I was thinking about the unreliability of personal memory. How do we know what is real or what we have invented? I decided to explore the fabrication of memory while recording this video, using frantic sounds and white noise as a means of signaling an obstructed or false memory. I completely remove the use of language in my work, similar to the way that dreams naturally happen through memory by enabling visual imagery to become the only reality. I take information and crush it in a large pile, piecing it back together again as my process. White noise represents the absence of silence in our minds, highlighting how we are never able to fully escape our memories, even if they are obscured.


LINKS:

http://cargocollective.com/KatelynNewman/1997

WORKS:

James Gimzewski & Andrew Pelling

Title: Sound of a Living Cell

Category: Audio

One-liner: An Atomic Force Microscope is employed to 'listen' to the sounds of cells.

Silence Quote: ”Even our living cells have sound"


A FEW WORDS:

Living cells create sound as a natural aspect of their metabolic process and each type of cell has a unique 'song' that changes when the cell is stressed.

Professor James Gimzewski and Andrew Pelling at the UCLA Department of Chemistry first made the discovery that yeast cells oscillate at the nanoscale in 2002. Amplifying this oscillation results in a sound that lies within the human audible range.

“Sonocytology”, the suggested term for this cutting edge field of study, represents a new realm of challenge and potential for scientists, artists, and in particular for musicians. The tool with which the cell sounds are extracted – the atomic force microscope (AFM) – can be regarded as a new type of musical instrument. Unlike microscopes that use optical imaging, the AFM “touches” a cell with its small tip, comparable to a record needle “feeling” the bumps in a groove on a record. With this interface, the AFM “feels” oscillations taking place at the membrane of a cell. These electrical signals can then be amplified and distributed by speakers.


LINKS:

http://gim.chem.ucla.edu/content/cell-sounds

http://www.darksideofcell.info/bg.html

TEDxLAMiracleMile - Jim Gimzewksi

Works:

Rosie Bryant / Rami

Title: Overtoning

Category: Audio

One-liner: Finding inner peace

Silence Quote: ”Only through meditation can we find true inner silence”


A FEW WORDS:

A short recording capturing more than 6 separate tones created from one breath


LINKS:

www.anyotherrose.com

WORKS:

VideoBlocks

Title: Stock footage

Category: Video

One-liner: Videoblocks is a resource for downloading stock footage, video, looping motion backgrounds and more.


LINKS:

www.videoblocks.com

WORKS: