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Sound for Cities

Sound for Cities is a series that seeks to make aural connections between the architecture, history, and everyday life of a city by manipulating sounds that already exist.

KolnKaddish Köln Kaddish

Prenning, Austria, July-Nov 2009
Landhaus Feuerloscher
5.1 channel audio installation with description/proposal for the city of Cologne
The piece proposes to coordinate Cologne's church bells to perform the Jewish prayer for the dead and for peace, the Kaddish. While church bells are used to relay messages of both religious and political importance in a city, they also tend to disappear into the background of the lives of its inhabitants, becoming to some extent insignificant. By manipulating sounds and imbuing them with or highlighting their inherent cultural significance, the work aims to arouse an awareness of the environment and its history in a manner that is perhaps more often attained through visual means.




Public Enlightenment Campaign:
New sounds for the New York subway system

(work in progress)
Proposal to manipulate the NYC subway announcements into a poetic form using sourced sound.




Architectural Renderings

Architectural Renderings is a series of video and mixed-media collaborations with visual artists that begin with sound as the foundation from which the work's visual structure is built. These projects are intended to be visual and sonic interpretations of selected architects' work. Through a shifting mix of patterns and improvisation, layering and structuring, formal compositions emerge that are reflective of more classical and orchestral sensibilities. The theater or installation space becomes a sonic pictorial landscape.



Calatrava
Calatrava

16-channel audio installation with 11-minute video
Video by Todd Schroeder



Herzog and de Meuron

(work in progress)
16-channel audio installation with video
Video by Otis Kriegel of Illegal Art



Square Off
Square Off

Spaces Gallery, Cleveland Ohio, 1998
Stereo Sound Performance Performance by Patrick Kelly as part of the 20th anniversary celebration: Howling at the Edge of a Renaissance Also available on CD





K.A.O.S. = Kinetic Amplified Organization of Sound

Live sound performance–composer Neil Benezra
Selected performances

Spaces Gallery, with KAOS (Kinetic Organization of Sound), Cleveland Ohio, February 2005

AC Project Room, with KAOS (Kinetic Organization of Sound), New York, New York, 2001

The Gershwin Hotel, with KAOS (Kinetic Organization of Sound), New York, New York, June 2000



Sound Off: A Series of New Sound Performances

AC Project Room, April 2001

Curated by Neil Benezra
Including performances by Makigami Koichi, Hannes Priesch, Erica Yoemans, John Hudak, Neil Benezra & the Kinetic Amplified Organization of Sound, David Watson, Karl Leitgeb, among others