FREQUENCY PAINTING SERIES:
SOUNDBURSTING NO.1
PREMIERE @ HARCOURT HOUSE
MARCH 1 - APRIL 14, 2012
SOUNDBURSTING NO.1
2-Channel HD Video + 4-Channel Generative Sound Composition (21-Pure Tones)
Black Mirrored Flooring
Size Variable
2012
Artist Statement:
What if we could SEE the moment a sound is created? Imagine this sound moving outward from its source and playing with other sounds… what would we see? This was the idea from which this project emerged.
Sound is a ubiquitous element in the human experience - its presence or absence defines spaces, emotions, experiences, and time. My explorations and experimentations in art are focused on the active process of listening to, looking at, and feeling sound; slowing down time and linking sensoria to encourage immersion in a whole body experience.
Using scientific tools that allow for the direct visualization of sound I create opportunities to perceive our world in an altered state of awareness, to link sound and image in ear, eye, and mind. Our brains create linkages when sensory inputs occur synchronously, synaptically bonding a visual with a sound. This is synchresis, and Soundbursting No. 1 is an environment facilitating these connections.
Two separate compositions play continuously. Looping on different durations the pieces interact and intersect in an evolving movement. Tone and image appear and decay in a duet reflected infinitely: a visual approximation of the complex interplay of sound waves engulfing us every day.
Gary James Joynes/Clinker
Soundbusrting No.1 by Gary James Joynes is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
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OUROBOROS
PREMIERE @ KOFFLER CENTRE OF THE ARTS, TORONTO, CANADA
SPIN OFF: CONTEMPORARY ART CIRCLING THE MANDALA
Aya Ben Ron (Israel), Mircea Cantor (France / Romania), Vandana Jain (USA), Gary James Joynes/Clinker (Canada), Melissa Shiff (Canada), Jennifer Zackin (USA)
September 22 to December 4, 2011
Koffler Gallery Off-Site at 80 Spadina Ave, Toronto, Canada
Curator: Evelyn Tauben
A centuries-old motif in Buddhist and Hindu religious practices, mandalas are representations of the cosmos, which help direct focus in meditation. Many contemporary artists have been entranced by the formal simplicity of the mandala (meaning circle in Sanskrit) paired with its function and elaborate symbolism. Spin Off brings together work by a group of international artists, elucidating the challenge and potential for accessing spirituality in a modern world. This multimedia exhibition presents art that melds mysticism and popular culture, offering alternative portals to escape the world of the everyday while simultaneously drawing upon its sights and sounds.
OUROBOROS
(2011)
C-print grid mosaic comprised of
nine individual mounted 24 x 24 inch elements
and
looped ambient video projection on sand sculpture
5 pure tones + artist's harmony vocal drone accompaniment
Running time: 12 minutes
Size is variable to space
Ouroboros is a single channel HD video sculpture within a vocal soundscape composed and sung by Joynes, presented with a grid of 9 photographs from the frequency painting series. This work explores sacred sounds and forms through a multisensory installation evoking a space for thoughtful reflection, a pause in hectic lives to consider the cyclical nature of existence.
OUROBOROS by Gary James Joynes is supported by the Edmonton Arts Council and the City of Edmonton
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FREQUENCY PAINTING:12 TONES
(2011)
12 x 48" x 48" Aluminum Mounted Chromogenic Prints with Custom Sonar Proximity Sensor Body Mapping + Room Pulsing Pure Tone Sound Generators + Self-Powered Speaker Systems
FREQUENCY PAINTING: 12 TONES combines iconic Cymatic sound wave sculpture (documented/exhibited as photography) and interactive (generative) sound composition into an immersive environment exploring the relationship between sound waves and their visual counterpart. The exhibition offers a portal to escape the world of the everyday.
Tonal energy, featured in cultures the world over, has been used to promote meditation and enlightenment. Similarly, mandalas and non-object based imagery have represented the unknowable, the infinite. Global cultural memory contains similar pure forms to the images in the Frequency Painting series. Are these inventions of human creativity or the physical manifestation of sound in our worlds? Perhaps these SONIC forms have an innate and synaesthetic connection to the visual content of our disparate cultures. 12 TONES links these pure aesthetic truths explored over hundreds of millennia.
Each image in 12 TONES is the visible form of the sound that created it, sculpted by shaping high volume sound waves through a custom designed wave driver plate machine and then photographed. The sound component compliments the photography through the use of hand-made sonar sensors triggering and modulating a speaker system emitting the very sine wave which generated the image. Each image is accompanied by one of these custom sound generators that modulates the volume both randomly and interactively based on viewer movement within the exhibition space. The interactivity is subtle yet is what holds the exhibition together as the 12-channel audio moiré of binaural beats and phase shifts morphs with every change in volume, a perpetually evolving composition played by the installation (random sonar pulses) in concert with it's viewers.
No two participants ever have the same sonic experience.
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FREQUENCY
PAINTING NEWS...
The FREQUENCY PAINTING SERIES is being represented by dc3 Art Projects
Click
HERE to view the Prints
VAGUE
TERRAIN interview with Gary James Joynes on the creation
of the FREQUENCY PAINTING IMAGES and the 12 TONES INSTALLATION
FREQUENCY
PAINTING
ESSAY + ARTIST STATEMENT
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THANK YOU...
It has been a 3-year journey creating the FREQUENCY
PAINTING series and many people have offered their talents and support
for this work. Thank you to EVERYONE below who have helped me to continue to realize this
work, it honestly feels like I have just begun exploring here :)
Gary James Joynes - March 10, 2012
EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS TO...
David Candler
Scott Smallwood
Susan Kennard
Kenny Lozowski
Banff Centre of the Arts (Banff Film & Media, BNMI)
Latitude 53
Todd Janes
Don Hill
Evelyn Tauben
Mona Filip
Koffler Centre of the Arts
Harcourt House
Jody Rusnak
Damien Murray
Edmonton Arts Council
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Canada Council for the Arts
SPECIAL THANKS TO...
Ayden Ellis Joynes (for never ending inspiration)
My Family
Ernst Chladni
Hans Jenny
Cindy Schatkoski
Steve Woollard
Kari McQueen
Juliana Barabas
Latitude 53
Rory Middleton
Eva Schindling
Maggie Shirley
Bradford Pettigrew
Eric Zeiburlins
Toronto Image Works
Axe Music
MUTEK
Les Robot
Alan Holowaychuk
University of Alberta
Charles Nichols
University of Montana
Joseph Rau
Blair Brennan
Stephanie MacKay
Ed Jordan
Tamara Majiwska
Greg J. Smith
Vague Terrain
Cam Ambrose
Naomi Potter
Laura Vanags
Don Lee
Sarah Fuller
Paul Schmitz
Sonja Norum
Murray Jurac
Paulette Bouchard
Gordana Zivkovic
John Huck
Doug Mansoff
Sheldon Fingler
Adam Tindale
Rob Harpin
Vicky Wong
Alaine Mackenzie
Roger Levesque
Sandra Sperounes
Aaron Macri
Mari Sasano
Tammy Salzl
Maire Leyva
Nicholas Bernier
Electric Fields
Ryan Stec
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Danny Dokken at Metal Supermarket
Dorkbot Edmonton
Garry Wong
Edmonton New Technology Society
Kim Solez
Wayne Bellerose
Nick Lonski
Axe Music
All the great musicians
and DJs I have had the pleasure
of working with over the last 20 years!
... and finally
anyone else I may have overlooked going
back over 2-years in my memory banks:)
Photograph of FREQUENCY PAINTING : 12 TONES exhibition at Latitude 53
by Cameron Ambrose
