Richard Lerman: Sonic Environments
@ Logan Center for the Arts
Logan Center for the Arts, North Stairwell, listening stations on 3rd and 7th floor landings, 915 East 60th Street
Opening Thursday, October 11th, at 5PM
On view through Wednesday, November 14th
The centerpiece of Richard Lerman’s residency at the University of Chicago is the development and installation of a site-specific acoustic work created from the unique sonic structure of the Logan Center for the Arts building. Lerman will attach his handmade piezo disk transducers onto the structural support beams of the North stairwell of the building, allowing these contact pick-up mechanisms to amplify the otherwise unheard sounds of the building itself. Natural shifts and settlement, the impact of the outside environment, and the movement of bodies up and down the stairwell of the building will be recorded and subsequently amplified in designated adjacent listening spots. Lerman’s work will allow us to hear the building’s inner-workings and transform what we perceive to be a solid architectural container of space into an organism that moves and generates sound in reaction to its use. Capturing the inherently relational quality of sound, Lerman’s installation at the Logan Center for the Arts will create a dynamic environment in which architecture and sound transform one another.
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Tags: Hyde Park, Logan Center for the Arts, Open Practice Committee, Richard Lerman, University of Chicago
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