Artist Talk: Gamut, Heather Gordon
Join us the following the opening reception of Heather Gordon’s series Gamut Saturday, September 16, 2017 at 1PM for a talk with the artist, questions, roundtable and more.
For more information about Gordon or to contact, visit her website, http://heathergordon.transition-project.com/. For more information about her current exhibition at SPECTRE Arts, see below or visit http://www.spectrearts.org/project/gamut-heather-gordon/
Gamut
Heather Gordon
Opening Reception:Friday, September 15, 2017. 6pm-9pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 – Friday, October, 6, 2017
Gamut : the entire range of notes reachable by an instrument or voice
The works in Gamut are physical objects representing silent intervals that form the structure of our sound ocean. They are the result of a wide range of scientific research, intuitive knowledge, philosophical meanderings, and improvisation. I have given myself free reign to consider the nature of our sonic world over the course of seven months and accept as valid any object that chose to emerge. I have been testing the range of the instrument of my body and mind.
Prior work had me focused on dissecting the cognitive experience of iterations and the processes that create them. I was fumbling about looking for an underlying rule for our relationship to the experience of time. Now I’ve side-stepped into the territory of interval, those spaces in between that allow us to see the iterative moments. I’m looking at the size of the silence in relation to the sound. The experience of our sound space seems determined by dimension and steps, ratios and integers, resonance and entrainment.
This work has been a journey into sound shapes. As I consider myself a map maker primarily, these works logically use the language of mathematics to describe my personal and individual experience of sound. I am wonder-struck at the way some resonating combinations can open up new spaces that feel physical in the sense they are biological, but remain temporary. Each one of these objects represents a marker, the moment of the interval. Each map is evidence of learning something, discarding something, shifting, reprioritizing, regulating, and predicting. These visual sound maps are observances forcing the collapse of infinite possibility into a singular crystalline experience with a shape.
A coincidence of the purest ray serene
– Erv Wilson
Artist Talk
Gamut: Heather Gordon