Splice
A sound art performance exploring contemporary truth-making in the time of digital and artificially intelligent mediation. Four cassette decks, a found VHS, an AI-generated voice over, 500-year-old text, and a barrage of social media are fed into a spatial sound system.
They are re-timed, re-pitched, and re-structured live – converted, arranged, and de-composed to ask: how do we commune across decades through the slippage of recorded memory? What does hyper-modern sound-making through analog tape hiss do to our understanding of media history? What do we trust when we can re-write the present as easily as the past?
Artist: Ryan Gamblin
Ryan Gamblin is a composer, sound designer, and artist based in Brooklyn, NY, working across performance, installation, and music. Their work centers the use of original composition, found media, and the sound system as instrument.
As a sound designer for theater and dance, they have worked with artists including Faye Driscoll, Nazareth Hassan, 600 Highwaymen, The Civilians, Big Dance Theater, Michael Herwitz, Pegg, Stacy Grossfield, and National Queer Theater.
Their designs have been heard at New York Live Arts, PACNY, The Vineyard Theatre, The Chocolate Factory, ICA Boston, REDCAT, Kunstenfestivaldesartes (BEL), Festival TransAmériques (Montréal, CA), Noorderzon Festival (NL), Julidans (NL), Athens Epidaurus Festival (GR), and Festival de Marseille (FR), among many others.
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