In the early 1980's I coined the name StrataVarious as an umbrella term to cover
a set of modular audio component sculptures. I was going
to Emily Carr College of Art and Design (now ECU) and although I had an intuitive
grasp of my own art I had difficulty with the language of Art.
Then and Now.
Perhaps language in general.
StrataVarious was the name of a series of
Installations that often included a performance aspect.
The idea here is to give
a brief overview and then do a series of blogs which chronologically detail how
I got to where I am now.
StrataVarious: The Sound Studio Permutation
StrataVarious: The Interdisciplinary Permutation
StrataVarious: The Bar B Q solo Permutation
StrataVarious: The Noisy Hallway Permutation
StrataVarious:Stairwell Permutation (Hellen Pitt Award Winner)
StrataVarious: Including the Sink Permutation (Grad Show 1984)
StrataVarious: Tonight 1984 Permutation(Whiterock)
StrataVarious: Autoguitar Permutation (Gastown)
The root concept was to create a sound sculpture by playing a number of unsynchronized
tape loops simultaneously.
The location of the sounds origin also changed constantly by
Connecting the tape machines to the speakers through
Both manual and automatic “switch machines”.
Turntable based speaker/source switcher
Bar b q motor based speaker/source
switcher
Plastic cup speakers
Stripped Cassette decks running custom tape loops
1/4" mild steel rods with custom 90 degree clamps
And ,of course, the Noddaguitar.
Recently I've
noticed a slow increase in intrest in 3d sound,
analogue/digital hybrid modular
and of course the term "Circuit Bending" has been around since 1992.
So perhaps
the language has caught up or at least some visible references to point at.
