La Dore, online interactive installation 2021
Riversssounds.org
The French word ‘Canaliser’, means ‘to channel and focus energy’, as well as signifying ‘to canalize’, which means to make a river navigable and its energy harvestable by constructing canals.
This composition begins with dripping from a pipe into a fishing lake and water seeping out of a cliff, runnels trickling down a hill, followed by water dropping out of drainage pipes and the rush of the Dore over rocks.
The river courses through different objects placed and found in its flow: bottles, pipes, fallen trees, rusted watermill paddles, metal and stone bridges. The river’s movement of water and air activates the harmonic resonances within the materials and shapes of these objects. The water’s unevenness is heard in the fluctuating rhythm of a centuries old wooden-paddled waterwheel.
Forest of Sound, Big Bang Festival 2019
Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece (w/Anastasia Douka)
In "Forest of Sound", young visitors are invited to contemplate the sounds of the natural world and of the city beneath sculptural trees which, inspired by the oracle of Dodona, are hung with various sounding objects: fruit, papier mâché leaves and everyday objects.
Their interaction with these objects allows field recordings gathered from diverse environments around the world (insects harmonizing, birds calling, leaves rustling, streams babbling, car horns pipping, passers-by talking, dogs barking, bells ringing etc.) to be transformed into music.
Following a musical performance by the artists, children and parents will be invited to play and create sound worlds for themselves.
UNDERCURRENT 2018
A-Dash, Athens, Greece
Surrounding us there is a constantly vibrating field of energy. These vibrations can be caught within shapes of space and frequencies of time to form patterns that communicate. Undercurrent attempts to bring these subtle movements, and their potential relationships, into our field of focus.
The rooms of A — DASH become an expanded instrument. Suspended piano wire, acoustically and electromagnetically amplified, emphasizes the geometry of the room. The harmonic relationships of these tones become visual patterns, through mirrors, speakers, and light. While the noise of the city activates and plays the suspended wires, rhythms from nature sound within the installation furniture. Visitors are invited to lie on the benches and experience listening through the ear, body, and eye.
The Witness Note 2017
Atopos, Athens, Greece
The sounds in this composition are recorded in the neighborhood of Metaxourghio, Athens with contact microphones, filtered through materials on the street: parking bollards, tram posts, signs, electric boxes, and fences. Live sound is filtered into the gallery space (Atopos, Athens) via a contact microphone an exterior balustrade sending sound into a pair of transducers on the windows.
STILL HERE 2013 - 2015
Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, USA
Dun Loaghaire School of Art & Design, Ireland
NAISA, Toronto, CanadA
Kasteli, Santorini, Greece
Still Here is a soundscape of the island of Santorini, in the Cyclades, Greece. The composition includes ambient sounds, talk, and music, exploring shared timelessness.
The visual realm of Santorini is littered with signposts of modernity. There are electric wires sagging across the valleys and satellite dishes rusting on roofs. However, the scattered village soundtrack is almost entirely absent of sounds of the modern era. The island has increasingly become a tourist hotspot with local communities replaced by picture perfect facsimiles of themselves.
We have selectively edited our recordings from Santorini to create a timeless map. It is fundamentally inaccurate, romanticized, the aural equivalent of a landscape photograph in which all pylons and road signs have been photoshopped into non-existence. Yet it is all drawn from the aural environment as it is today, and likely will be for many years to come.
These soundscapes are transmitted on 5 very low power FM transmitters placed at a distance from each other in an empty room, transmitting on the same frequency. Five visitors at a time will be invited to enter the room, each with their own handheld radio receiver encased in a salvaged birdcage from one of Santorini's abandoned village houses. Now illegal, villagers traditionally captured North African goldfinches and decorated their terraces with birdsong. As they move, listeners reconstitute the landscape and its communities through a transmitted sonic landscape.
Visitors can opt in and out of the various soundscapes from around the island, choosing to stand by one transmitter only or journeying to different environments: cliff tops, village domesticity, celebration, church bells, singing, shoreline and docks, terraces, rocks and tall grass.
Same Side of The Street, 2014
Chicago Architectural Biennalle, 6018 North, Chicago, USA
One room on the second floor of 6018North is turned into a camera obscura. Paper screens hung in front of the window show the inverted image of the street. Copper foil and magnets on the screens also serve to transform the visual surface into an audible surface; these speakers play the displaced sounds of the street.
Solo View, 2014
Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, USA
Artist book, copper foil and magnet speakers, light diffusion and transparency images, desk with bone transduction speakers and back projection.
Solo View addresses the story of Ivor B Webster, an Irish born U2 test pilot, who flew for decades with the CIA, Lockheed, and NASA. The implications of the observer as data collector are viewed through the personal and scientific materials that this pilot collected while on official missions as well as the recollections and observations of the pilot from those who knew him or knew of him.
Harmonograph II, 2014
ACRE PROJECT SPACE, CHICAGO, IL, USA
Three editions of a lock looped record with three tracks is played from three vinyl players.
Track 1 – Moxley, Track 2 – Mozari, Track 3 – Milano
This record is engraved with three locked loop recordings from a large EMU synthesizer. Play 3 copies of the record on 3 record players spaced around the room. At different speeds and spatially distributed, the sounds will affect each other through beating and harmonic relationships. Produced in Chicago for Rounds, an exhibition at the ACRE Project Space that includes drawings and a harmonograph machine. Both the sonic and visual works represent simultaneous undulations through space that are pulled into a slower and more perceivable field of perception through their placement on relative planes.
A Harmonograph built from reclaimed wood by Mozari and Moxley is activated by swinging weights to draw oscilloscope images of proportional relations.
Sussurrations, 2013
Flaxman Library, School of the art institute of Chicago, USA
Recordings of the air conditioning system and field crickets intertwine amongst the shelves of books.