S t u d i o F i v e B e e k m a n

sound and intermedia gallery

Ron Kuivila

Tall Stalks Sharing

a sound installation

Saturdays

2 - 9 PM

June 5 - 26, 1999

Notes by the composer:

Feedback is the acoustical equivalent of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Like any resonant phenomenon, it is based on the accumulation of energy at some frequencies and the cancellation of energy at others. The favored resound, the unfavored are silenced.

'Tall Stalks Sharing' sets out to spread the wealth. In it, feedback aspires to spectral uniformity with a little help from some digital signal processing.

bio:

Ron Kuivila composes music and designs sound installations that revolve around the homemade and home modified electronic systems he designs. He pioneered the use of ultrasound (Comparing Habits) and sound sampling (Alphabet) in live performance. Other pieces have explored compositional algorithms (Loose Canons), speech synthesis (The Linear Predictive Zoo), and high voltage phenomena (Pythagorean Puppet Theatre). Most recently, he completed the first installment of Visitations, a sound installation that reconstructs the past soundscapes of the factories that used to exist on the campus of the newly opened Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Kuivila has performed and exhibited installations throughout Europe and North America. Beginning July 1, he will be a composer in residence in Berlin through the auspices of the DAAD.