Employing obsolete technology and analogue tape loops, his haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life and resound with the reverberations of memory and the mystery of time. Often i am puzzled by how other artists create their work, how they come to decide arrangements, sequences of sounds or just the sounds themselves.William Basinski (b.1958) is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 40 years in NYC and California. For now though, they are in limbo on a piece of plastic or a series of lines of data For me, listening to them over and over, they will take another form as time passes. The pieces exist then as less of a statement, more of a question, but a question that will be different for each listener. How did I arrive at these compositions and their placements? It raised questions though and these are still part of what I struggle with in the ways I chose to create and then speak of my work Sound allowed me a language that was wordless, open, moving, shapeless yet full of forms, connections, and progressions. The visual language I was using had become foreign to me. I slowly came to conclusion that I no longer understood how to communicate sensation via a pigmented surface. I chose sound as my medium after many years as a painter. I do not see my work as abstraction but rather purely abstract. Focus on the sensorial nature rather than an explicit narrative or reasoning. This is not because I cannot, but because I want the listener to approach my compositions of sound as such. I still find it difficult to write about my work. I find myself at the collision of an inflection point and more over a reflection point.
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