Chelpa Ferro
Maracanã , 2003
Acoustic speakers, microphones (and effects)
Photo: Luiz Zerbini
Autobang , 2002
Maverick 74, auto lift, assorted wooden drumsticks, bronze, hammers, wrenches, iron bars, bones. Pro tools microphones, speakers and video projection.
Photo: Fabio Ghivelder
Nadabrahma , 2003
“Pau Negro” mahogany branches, motor, iron base and electric circuitry
Variable dimensions
Collection Chelpa Ferro
Photo: Barrão
Chelpa Ferro is the name of a group of artists from the fields of visual art, video art and music. With their vivid sound work installations, they range among the most important representatives of the current music and art scene in Brazil.
Every-day, industrial or technical, natural and environmental objects are decontextualized and, in the new context of eletronical music devices (MP3 player, loundspeakers, oscillators, amplifiers, etc.), develop structural characteristics well beyond their customary function. Chelpa Ferro have displayed their creations at many international exhibitions; this year they will be represented at the Venice Biennale.
Moreover, Chelpa Ferro realize their bricolage in musical performances. Collages composed of every-day noises, guitar solos, sound fragments from pieces by well-known pop icons like Autoramas, Yoko Ono, Yes, or Iggy Pop, improvisations, self-designed objects and machines that produce sounds, noises or rhythms, guide the audience through a varified soundscape full of imagination.
Max Neuhaus
Drive In Music, 1967
Plan of broadcast area showing the configuration of antennas (colored lines) transmitting the work's seven sound components.
Passage
The Passage works are situated in spaces where
the physical movement of the listener through the
space to reach a destination is inherent. They imply
an active role on the part of listeners, who set a static
sound structure into motion for themselves by passing
through it. My first work with an aural topography,
Drive In Music in 1967, falls within this vector.
-Max Neuhaus
Public Supply I, 1966
Radio transmission and telephone communication.
http://www.theartgalleryofknoxville.com/neuhausaudio/Public_Supply_I.html
Times Square, 1977
A harmonic sound texture emerging from the north end of the triangular pedestrian island located at Broadway between 45th and 46th Streets in New York City.
Originally installed at this site from 1977 to 1992, the Times Square Street Business Improvement District (BID), and Christine Burgin collaborated with MTA Arts for Transit and Dia to reinstate the project in May of 2002.
http://www.diacenter.org/ltproj/neuhaus/
Cory Arcangel
Old Friends, 2005
Simon and Garfunkel "Live @ Central Park" DVD timecode for all the places where a liberal reading could indicate tension between Simon and Garfunkel.
http://beigerecords.com/cory/Things_I_Made_in_2005/s_g_looks.html
Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast" compressed over and over as an mp3 666 times, 2004
http://beigerecords.com/cory/Things_I_Made_in_2004/iron_maiden_2004.html
Slim Thug Status Bot, 2005
A chat bot that lets you know if Slim Thug's album "Already Platinum" has gone platinum yet.
http://beigerecords.com/cory/Things_I_Made_in_2005/slim_thug_bot.html
