Combining audio and visual forms with new technologies to create an interactive experience Liz Phillips has been making multi-media installations for the past 50 years, and has exhibited at numerous art museums, alternative spaces, festivals, and public spaces. Phillips has also collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Nam June Paik, Simone Forti, Alison Knowles, Yoshimasa Wada, Heidi Howard, Earl Howard, Cynthia Koppe and Nitin Mukul...
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« I first met Serge at Cal Arts, the first year in Burbank California, 1970. He was building his prototype synthesizer in a. trailer. Nam June Paik and Allan Kaprow had invited me out for my work term from Bennington College. I was one of many artists in residence. I lived in a house in Hollywood with Alison Knowles, Peter Van Riper, Simone Forti, Shuya Abe and Serge.
I was 19, a sculpture student. I came with my capacitance field to voltage circuits and hoped to work them with an analog synthesizer there. That is when Serge and I began working together. He built many special circuits for my interactive sound work and we continued to work together well into the 1980’s. I bought many of Serge’s wonderful synthesizer modules to make open systems that each ran at an installation for months! This last one ran from 2018-2020 at the Queens Museum. It also used four seasons, hours of recordings on six cards into separate systems and two light sensors mounted on eye spectacles mounted on the wall. In this atrium the sun changed the voice, character and location of binaural recordings of bees and birds spinning thru the speakers located in the atrium. »
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from Modulisme Session 035,
released February 14, 2021
Trumpet Improvisation by Joseph Kress, “In Relative Fields”, Queens Museum, NYC on February 11, 2020. A light sensitive Installation by Heidi Howard and Liz Phillips 100 foot-long by 24-foot-high wall painting by Heidi Howard with 22 channels of sound through objects; chairs, ceramic, bamboo and wood.
Joseph Kress is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and engineer from New York City. He is the bandleader of Augustine’s Velo Club and the founder of Sandbox Fight Records.
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