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Studio recordings, location, and archival restoration for various CD and installation projects, including those by On Kawara, Roni Horn, Richard Deacon, and Bruce Nauman, among others.

SoapMOCA

LA MOCA

45-hour ambient sound composition that was played through speakers on the side of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art for 3 weeks for the general public. The work was commissioned by James Franco to support a video composition that he created for an exhibition of his character, the visual artist “Franco,” in the actor’s final appearance on the soap opera General Hospital. James shot and edited to a split screen 45 hours of his rehearsal schedule as a performance work to create the video.

Köln Kaddish

Prenning, Austria
Landhaus Feuerloscher

http://www.prenningergespraeche.at/Archiv.html
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.

Train
Wekstadt Graz

http://derstandard.at/1308680485258/Installation-Eine-jiddisch-deutsche-Soundreise

http://werkstadt.at/werkstadt_neu/index.php?pageid=2&l=2

A multi-speaker immersive cinematic sound environment, which explores my understanding of and connection to the German language through my relationship with my Yiddish-speaking grandparents, as well as through other personal experiences. This work deals with stereotypes and Hollywood (mis)representations, using sonic textures, and ultimately it explores the affinities between the two languages. Installation includes multi-speaker recording that places the gallery visitor in an ethereal dreamlike, filmic aural environment. The recordings evoke a train ride pierced by minimal, sporadic voices—two German speakers, one male and one female and two Yiddish speakers one male and one female. In the middle of the room is a bench, which serves dual purposes: to allude to the experience of sitting on a train and to direct the listener into the ideal listening position within the gallery. Seven small speakers are evenly placed on the walls of the space approximately six feet above the floor and facing the bench, up to four small speakers may hang from the ceiling approximately seven feet above the floor; one subwoofer for low frequency output will be placed under the bench.

The Real Pepsi Challenge-Breaking the Color Barrier in Business

Archival restoration and transfer of original promotional and public vinyl recordings from the 1940s.

Studio recordings, location, and archival restoration for various CD and installation projects, including those by On Kawara, Roni Horn, Richard Deacon, and Bruce Nauman, among others.

Cheim & Read

Cheim & Read projects have included exhibitions of the work of Jack Pierson, Paul Morrison, William Eggleston, Andy Warhol, and Paul McCarthy. Jack Pierson included the design of a system that allowed each viewer that entered the gallery and stepped onto a stage to “become” Judy Garland, as a sound recording of Liza Minelli singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” was triggered throughout the gallery space.

Cheim & Read

Design of an eight-speaker surround-sound sitting room, as well as editing and restoring Louise Bourgeois’ archival recordings.

Other Cheim & Read projects have included Jack Pierson, Paul Morrison, William Eggleston, Andy Warhol

Paint Your Own Pictures

Yvon Lambert Gallery

Acoustical design of room treatment and suspended sound isolation walls, as well as sound system design and installation for several films being shown simultaneously and in close proximity.

Ontological-Hysteric Theater

International touring sound design for eight Foreman productions, working closely with the artist to help create and execute his unique sonic concepts in New York and variously sized venues throughout Europe and Asia.