INSTALLATION: A Sound That Never Was by Dim Coast

A Sound That Never Was is a multi-channel sound installation curated by The Dim Coast (jake moore & Steve Bates). It features sound by 14 artists; Félicia Atkinson, Matthew Cardinal, Raven Chacon, crys cole, Isabella Forciniti, David Grubbs, Timothy Herzog, Sasha J. Langford, Mani Mazinani, Christof Migone, Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt, Anju Singh, Aho Ssan, Mark Templeton, voice recording by Vivian Darroch-Lozowski, and text by Daniela Cascela.
This project began as an encounter with the book Voice of Hearing, written by Vivian Darroch-Lozowski, first published in 1984. The sensorial slippage of its title and how the reader is brought into being in the hearing-reading of its text suggested the form for this project.
A Sound That Never Was is produced with a new digital instrument that generates a score writ from software code modulated by weather data and seismic activity. The score parses the library’s sound files authored by this chorus of artists, played out in arrangements determined by the vibrancy of the world in a particular place at the moment of their selection. The precise arrangements, understood as relationality between the world, the machines of production, transmission, reception, locality, and the artists’ original gestures – perform a sound that never was before and never will assemble exactly thus again.
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