Project Lab: SOUND OASIS

SOUND OASIS, an outdoor three-dimensional audio environment on the CSULB campus Quad featured eleven soundscapes by leading sound artists from around the globe. Transforming the campus Quad into an immersive soundscape merging electronic compositions into the outdoor environment – dimensions of space, duration, and perception, are explored, manipulating and melding the sounds of urban existence. Project Director, Francisca Rivero Lake, developed the collaboration over several years, initially conceiving Sound Oasis as a site-specific project around the Palacio de las Bellas Artes in Mexico City, a locus of noise: “Just as light and general colors change at each instant of the day, so do the intensity and modulation of sounds, as unique and changing as shadows.”

Sound Oasis creates a haven that interacts with the surrounding environment. The infrastructure consisted of a series of speakers placed throughout the Quad according to the audio diffusion design of Illustrious Company. Visitors entering the space re-evaluated the sound environment around them. The audio exhibition encouraged people to experience art without visual traces, heightening sensory perception. SOUND OASIS played daily from 10 AM to 9 PM.

The SOUND OASIS installation included descriptive boards placed in the Quad with information on the artists involved in the project written in both English and Spanish. The opening event on October 6th began at 6 PM and included a personal appearance by Martyn Ware from the Illustrious Company who spinned a DJ set from 9 to 10 PM.

www.soundoasis.com.mx

Artists included in Sound Oasis were: ‘Gal*in_dog’ aka Guillermo Galindo, (Mexico) Manuel Rocha Iturbide (Mexico) Illustrious Company – Martyn Ware & Vince Clarke (United Kingdom) Slavek Kwi (Czech Republic /Ireland) Merzbow (Japan) Ultra-red (United States/Mexico) radioqualia (New Zealand) Luz Maria Sánchez (Mexico) Rogelio Sosa (Mexico) Mario de Vega (Mexico) Chris Watson (United Kingdom)

Project Lab: SOUND OASIS

Künstler: Maryanne Amacher, Galin dog aka Guillermo Galindo, Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Illustrious Company  (Martyn Ware & Vince Clarke), Slavek Kwi, Merzbow , Ultra-red , radioqualia , Luz Maria Sanchez, Rogelio Sosa, Mario de Vega, Chris Watson