Fearless Soundscapes

Soundscapes for the Fearless exhibition, composed by Andy Voigt. 

As you view each collection of tapestries you can click on the corresponding audio file. 

Or you can choose the file titled Full Soundscape if you would like to hear the audio as one continuous piece.

Baby Steps

Desert Light

Flight

Slippage

Struggle

Arterial

Mimosa

Reprise

Obtuse

Oblique

Resolve

Fearless Complete Soundscape

This soundscape titled ‘Fearless’ uses the following sounds:

DESERT LIGHT

083773631-tropical-birds-morning
Atmosphaeres Pond 5 License purchased

Desert Night Air With Bird Call by kangaroovindaloo — https://freesound.org/s/147264/ — License: Attribution 4.0

ARTERIAL

474288__mycompasstv__babbling-brook
Babbling Brook by mycompasstv — https://freesound.org/s/474288/ — License: Creative Commons 0

660260__tom_kaszuba__river-flowing-sound
River flowing sound. by Tom_Kaszuba — https://freesound.org/s/660260/ — License: Creative Commons 0

583753__bia12__brook2
brook2.mp3 by Bia12 — https://freesound.org/s/583753/ — License: Creative Commons 0

FEARLESS…..beginning in ernest, but not feeling fearless

Today marks the first day of dialogue for my solo exhibition, mid year, 2024, at the Wangaratta Art Gallery. Via Zoom, I met with Rachel Arndt – Gallery Director, and Ashlee Laing – Curator. They were very complimentary towards my tapestry weavings – especially the latest gutsy, textural set, OBTUSE – and can see that I already have enough new art for at least four (4) solo shows!

Dear Support people for HABITAT @ immerse

I think this installation is one of the highlights of my professional art practice!

 

I wish to thank you personally for your efforts in helping me ‘stage’ HABITAT @ immerse. It could not have happened without the skills each of you have contributed to the project. I am deeply grateful.

It is no easy task to set up an exhibition with so many important aspects – choosing me as an immerse artist, sound design, DVD burning, flat set-up and gallery design, blacking painted surfaces, installation of structures, hanging art, writing for the catalogue, IT expertise, curatorial advice / backup / facilitating, fabricating, recording movies, printing labels, transport, administering, words of encouragement, Opening assistance, general support of the artist, and much more! YOU all made it work!

DEFEET and performing artist getting ready It’s a dog’s life

DOGHOUSE Fabricator: Thomas Peitsch

Year: 2016

Medium: Wood, Letters, fabric dog

Sent to the doghouse’ is an idiom suggesting punishment and shame for your unpopular actions or attitudes. This top-dog lives on the upper floor, above criticism and the patter of everyday life. Yet, she will never be given the chance to ‘rule’. She has no money, power, or social influence. She makes no promises. Apparently, she has no future in politics. What a lucky dog!

Doghouse

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION Fabricator: Patience Peitsch

Though the tones between black and white are infinite, it is possible to move from one to the other in six tonal steps – using only fabrics found in the ‘average’ Spotlight Store. We are told the same ‘six step’ dictum often holds true in directly connecting oneself with a famous relative or celebrity. Through the morass of human beings, a linking thread of commonality can be discovered. This may also point to connection with all creation.

 

Six Degrees of Separation

HABITAT@immerse Day 10

Some text relevant to HABITAT:

See every creature as an image or mirror of Divinity. Every creature reveals something about God to us – maybe it is beauty; maybe humour that shines through; maybe simplicity; maybe complexity. With the right eyes of perception, everything reveals something of the divine to us. Matthew Fox on Thomas Aquinas

By dwelling on creatures the mind is inflated to love the divine goodness. We love God and know God in the mirror of God’s creatures. Thomas Aquinas

If we are looking to find the ‘ultimate and noblest perfection in things,’ then look to the whole. Today, we know the order of the universe is a very dynamic order, a rapidly evolving order, an order in motion, an order of the birth, death, and resurrection of galaxies, supermovas, stars, and planets, including earth. We all exist to serve a larger order, the cosmos itself.   Matthew Fox on Thomas Aquinas

HABITAT ROLL OUT

SOUNDSCAPE: HOWL FOR YOUR LIFE: You, Me and US Sound Designer: Matthias Peitsch

Part 2 of 2

What started out as a reasonably simple idea expanded into this soundscape equivalent of a veil of water filling every available airspace between the installations of HABITAT at immerse. After almost twenty (20) years collaborating on sound design with Flossie Peitsch, the output always seems to extend dramatically beyond the small initial idea. This particular piece stretched from three (3) minutes to thirty (30) minutes during the progression of the composition.

This piece unusually uses a forward and backward presentation of the spoken clips. The initial elements of water and wind are also reversed – giving a familiar and yet random quality throughout. The soundscape is designed to be played at low volume. Surprise elements are layered to fit under the melody of the wind in a way that is almost a replacement of one for the other – even though our ears momentarily focus on the added element. A continual destruction and electrification of the original recordings blurs the boundaries between humanity, self and technology which resonates throughout this exhibition.

 

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