Sonic Arts Überblick
Most of my sound work is process focused and rejects any implied mandate that validation requires recording. However, I do work with recorded projects as well, which you can find 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 on how it can relate to and inform the visual arts and vice versa. As of Summer 2022 I have begun the research phase of an eventual book on this topic told from experiential perspectives.
My projects most often 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 versus focusing on public exhibition.
Sound is also adept as a performative medium, as well as a companion for time-based visual arts, such as video. It excels at filling space and has abstract emotional qualities. You'll definitely find projects here that deploy along those lines.
Interested in learning modular composition?
If you're a visual artist within driving distance of Linn or Benton county Oregon and want to explore modular synthesizer composition in a fine arts context, please reach out and I'd be happy to work with you.
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 on how it can relate to and inform the visual arts and vice versa. As of Summer 2022 I have begun the research phase of an eventual book on this topic told from experiential perspectives.
My projects most often 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 versus focusing on public exhibition.
Sound is also adept as a performative medium, as well as a companion for time-based visual arts, such as video. It excels at filling space and has abstract emotional qualities. You'll definitely find projects here that deploy along those lines.
Interested in learning modular composition?
If you're a visual artist within driving distance of Linn or Benton county Oregon and want to explore modular synthesizer composition in a fine arts context, please reach out and I'd be happy to work with you.