artist: ANDY GRAYDON
title: Geomancy
label: mAtter
country: Japan
format: CD + DVD (region free)
title: Geomancy
label: mAtter
country: Japan
format: CD + DVD (region free)
"Geomancy is a new DVD + CD collection of works about place and displacement, location
and identity, and with the environment (or the 'field' of field recordings) as a complex
envelope of forces and meanings which light and sound can both trace and transform.
The CD contains a new long-form sound work, Untitled (Geomancy). The piece was created
from field recordings that were subject to a series of material and digital transformations: the
original recordings were cut to a series of acetate phonograph records for an installation work
in 2008, and these well-worn records, revealing a new landscape of their own in both sound
and texture, became the basis for the composition.
The DVD collects four of Graydon's super 8 films on video. Farwanderer, a story of finding
identity in displacement, is the keystone work, revealing themes that are central to much of
Graydon's film work. Surroundings evokes a restless sense of place more directly in images
and music. Focal Plane is based on a live image and sound performance piece, and deals
with the coming to life of an environment from the most fundamental elements of light,
shape, motion -- and how these are always something less and something more than they
seem. Untitled (Aina) is a visual field recording of sorts, showing environments on the islands
of Hawaii where natural and human processes are set in friction or resonance, and
accompanied by sound from the original acetate records used to create the Untitled
(Geomancy) sound composition." (Andy Graydon)
CD
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DVD
1. Farwanderer [2009]
2. Surroundings (The Ship, The Shoal, The Shore) [2005]
3. Focal Plane (Ten Frames Align On The) [2006]
4. Untitled (Aina) [2008]
Andy Graydon (b. 1971, Maui, Hawaii) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin.
His work focuses on the interaction of sound, image, and environment. In his recent work
Andy is interested in creating what he calls "Science Fiction Ecologies" by engaging with
the speculative and transformational qualities within an environment. Taking the form of
videos, sound works, media objects and installations this work explores the boundary zones
between performance and exhibition, presence and deferral, liveness and mediation.
Graydon has presented work nationally and internationally in programs such as Ausland,
Berlin, the Worldwide Video Festival, Amsterdam, and the Portland Art Center, Oregon.
Recent exhibitions and performances in New York City include work at The New Museum of
Contemporary Art, LMAKprojects gallery, Diapason, Art In General, Participant Inc gallery,
Galeria Galou, The Dumbo Arts Festival, Millennium Film Workshop, White Box
gallery, and Tonic. In 2005/2006 he was the visiting artist at the Center for Computer Music,
Brooklyn College, CUNY.
Recent sound releases are available on Non Visual Objects (Vienna), Winds Measure
Recordings (Brooklyn), 12k/Term (New York), EKO (Paris), On;(do) Music (Miami), The NY
Society for Acoustic Ecology, and forthcoming from White_Line Editions (UK).
Collaborations include performances and recordings with John Hudak, Kato Hideki, Kenneth
Kirschner, sawako, Amnon Wolman, David Grubbs, Ben Owen, Zach Layton, Andre
Golcalves, Brendan Murray, mpld, and Richard Garet. He is the co-founder and curator of
three media and performance series in New York City: Becoming, Sonogrammar, and the
upcoming LMAKseries. www.andygraydon.net
and identity, and with the environment (or the 'field' of field recordings) as a complex
envelope of forces and meanings which light and sound can both trace and transform.
The CD contains a new long-form sound work, Untitled (Geomancy). The piece was created
from field recordings that were subject to a series of material and digital transformations: the
original recordings were cut to a series of acetate phonograph records for an installation work
in 2008, and these well-worn records, revealing a new landscape of their own in both sound
and texture, became the basis for the composition.
The DVD collects four of Graydon's super 8 films on video. Farwanderer, a story of finding
identity in displacement, is the keystone work, revealing themes that are central to much of
Graydon's film work. Surroundings evokes a restless sense of place more directly in images
and music. Focal Plane is based on a live image and sound performance piece, and deals
with the coming to life of an environment from the most fundamental elements of light,
shape, motion -- and how these are always something less and something more than they
seem. Untitled (Aina) is a visual field recording of sorts, showing environments on the islands
of Hawaii where natural and human processes are set in friction or resonance, and
accompanied by sound from the original acetate records used to create the Untitled
(Geomancy) sound composition." (Andy Graydon)
CD
1. untitled
2. untitled
3. untitled
4. untitled
5. untitled
6. untitled
7. untitled
DVD
1. Farwanderer [2009]
2. Surroundings (The Ship, The Shoal, The Shore) [2005]
3. Focal Plane (Ten Frames Align On The) [2006]
4. Untitled (Aina) [2008]
Andy Graydon (b. 1971, Maui, Hawaii) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin.
His work focuses on the interaction of sound, image, and environment. In his recent work
Andy is interested in creating what he calls "Science Fiction Ecologies" by engaging with
the speculative and transformational qualities within an environment. Taking the form of
videos, sound works, media objects and installations this work explores the boundary zones
between performance and exhibition, presence and deferral, liveness and mediation.
Graydon has presented work nationally and internationally in programs such as Ausland,
Berlin, the Worldwide Video Festival, Amsterdam, and the Portland Art Center, Oregon.
Recent exhibitions and performances in New York City include work at The New Museum of
Contemporary Art, LMAKprojects gallery, Diapason, Art In General, Participant Inc gallery,
Galeria Galou, The Dumbo Arts Festival, Millennium Film Workshop, White Box
gallery, and Tonic. In 2005/2006 he was the visiting artist at the Center for Computer Music,
Brooklyn College, CUNY.
Recent sound releases are available on Non Visual Objects (Vienna), Winds Measure
Recordings (Brooklyn), 12k/Term (New York), EKO (Paris), On;(do) Music (Miami), The NY
Society for Acoustic Ecology, and forthcoming from White_Line Editions (UK).
Collaborations include performances and recordings with John Hudak, Kato Hideki, Kenneth
Kirschner, sawako, Amnon Wolman, David Grubbs, Ben Owen, Zach Layton, Andre
Golcalves, Brendan Murray, mpld, and Richard Garet. He is the co-founder and curator of
three media and performance series in New York City: Becoming, Sonogrammar, and the
upcoming LMAKseries. www.andygraydon.net