Sonic Arts Überblick
General Statement
Most of my sound work is process focused and rejects an implied mandate that validation requires recording, though you can find some documented projects at https://johnnybeaver.bandcamp.com. I'm primarily interested space, metaphor, and signal flow; the latter being a primary aspect of working with modular synthesizers. I am a strong proponent of this mode of composition, and place a long term emphasis how it can relate to and inform the visual arts and vice versa.
Projects feed on improvisation, ephemerality, and privacy. Sound seems to be the ideal medium for experimenting with the concept of undocumented, audience-less artmaking. When you shut the machine off, it's just gone, along with the pressures that make editing and display half the practice. The anxiety my work alleviates often does so through immediacy, and so over time I have slowly drifted in that direction. Even in terms of the recorded work, I seek the immediacy and personal nature of streaming through platforms like Bandcamp.
All of that said, sound is also adept as a performative medium, as well as a companion for time-based visual arts, such as video. It also fills space and has abstract emotional qualities. You'll definitely find projects here that deploy along those lines.
Learn Modular Arts
If you're a visual artist within driving distance of Corvallis, OR and want to explore modular synthesisizer composition in a fine arts context, please reach out and I'd be happy to work with you. We can learn a lot from each other. Modular is far from inexpensive, especially when it comes to acoustic arts, field recording, etc, but with options like Tangible Waves' AE Modular that's starting to change.
Most of my sound work is process focused and rejects an implied mandate that validation requires recording, though you can find some documented projects at https://johnnybeaver.bandcamp.com. I'm primarily interested space, metaphor, and signal flow; the latter being a primary aspect of working with modular synthesizers. I am a strong proponent of this mode of composition, and place a long term emphasis how it can relate to and inform the visual arts and vice versa.
Projects feed on improvisation, ephemerality, and privacy. Sound seems to be the ideal medium for experimenting with the concept of undocumented, audience-less artmaking. When you shut the machine off, it's just gone, along with the pressures that make editing and display half the practice. The anxiety my work alleviates often does so through immediacy, and so over time I have slowly drifted in that direction. Even in terms of the recorded work, I seek the immediacy and personal nature of streaming through platforms like Bandcamp.
All of that said, sound is also adept as a performative medium, as well as a companion for time-based visual arts, such as video. It also fills space and has abstract emotional qualities. You'll definitely find projects here that deploy along those lines.
Learn Modular Arts
If you're a visual artist within driving distance of Corvallis, OR and want to explore modular synthesisizer composition in a fine arts context, please reach out and I'd be happy to work with you. We can learn a lot from each other. Modular is far from inexpensive, especially when it comes to acoustic arts, field recording, etc, but with options like Tangible Waves' AE Modular that's starting to change.