Richard Garet Light, Motion, and Radio Disturbances
Saturday, April 6 | Reception, 7:30pm
Performance, 8pm/ Sharp
This year MAAS is proud to present Richard Garet's first time debut in the East Coast of his audiovisual
performance piece "Light, Motion, and Radio Disturbances". This piece was premiered at "Activating
the Medium" at San Francisco MOMA, and organized by 23five during April 2011. Garet's new
installment of his performance will focus on surfaces, gestures, differences, and distances among material
and its phenomenology, to activate and amplify expressive sonic manifestations of electromagnetic waves
utilizing radio technology, radio interference, sonification of light and moving image, and computer
processing. Garet's sonic construction will surface from real-time interaction with his material creating a
poly-layered sonic field where the final form consists of voicing out the outcome of colliding forces being
weighed, measured, and carefully treated in real time.
The material for this piece emerges from the radio arena while utilizing AM/FM and SW radios as a fabric
source. The sonic field will be established by utilizing the live feeds from the radios to activate a series of
piezos, sound exciters, motors, and modified speakers, to resonate objects, filter its frequency range, and
mask its origin. Additionally, a series of extended techniques will be applied to disrupt the radio signals and
establish an electromagnetic field for further disturbance and audio feedback of the source material.
Photoresistors, connected to the sonic system, and flickering image projections will be utilized to interrupt
the sound further, once the intensity of the emitted colored-and-flickering light, from the imagery, touches the
photoresistors.
