September 19-29, 2024
Live Performance: Friday, September 27, 7 pm
Various/Artists
19 Essex St
NY NY 10002
Victoria Keddie has designed a sculptural sound installation titled For the Record at Various/Artists as part of a new boxed vinyl LP release, “P’shal P’shaw,” released with Raster Media (DE).
The storefront installation features custom lathe-cut "singles" made from the album, which are played through a 1982 Rock-ola Jukebox. A variety of hanging microphones capture each song, and custom software spatially and granularly manipulates the sound within the room. Participants are invited to play the jukebox.
The back room contains a raster -based video series exploring oral discourse connections, gradually abstracting participant profiles influenced by phonetic sounds' frequency and dynamics. Its soundtrack is a polyphony of 28 voices reciting a script with all the phonemes removed, leaving only transients and attacks. This is taken from a composition present on side A of the record.
As part of this durational staging, Keddie will perform a live arrangement on September 27th, incorporating her self-designed neural instrument sounding 28 voices in dialogue with her modular synthesizer. In conjunction with the live performance, 12 copies of this limited edition release are available for sale (sans EU shipping) and will be available to pick up at this performance.
“P’shal P’shaw" (white noise #002) is a limited edition vinyl record out with Raster Media (DE). The LP is accompanied by a booklet detailing Keddie's research into phonetic mimicry and the shifting phonetics of American English. This multimedia project explores the auditory and rhythmic nuances of phonetic expression through text, sound, video, data, and customized learning software. The album examines the sonic landscape of eight diphthongs in US English through repeated exemplary words, recorded with participants from diverse backgrounds.
More information on this project: https://www.victoriakeddie.com/pshal-pshaw
