Intercept Tone/Vacant Level by Lori Napoleon (NYEAF 2013)

Meridian7 aka Lori Napoleon performed Intercept Tone/Vacant Level, a new work for analog modules in the Harvestworks 2013 New York Electronic Art Festival. She also was an Artist in Residence at Harvestworks in 2013 where she completed three new instruments, gained more expertise in audio recording, multiple channel sound spatialization and composition through working with Paul Geluso, our chief recording engineer.

This performance is an analog audio excursion that brings obsolete telephone equipment back to a life of patching signals by transforming vintage switchboards into modular synthesizers and sequencers. The piece is inspired by the cryptic sounds of archival DIY field recordings of analog switching systems captured by a subculture of audio explorers with reel-to-reels called phone phreaks. This piece explores sonic textures using comb filtering, a technique that creates evolving timbres through a process of time-delayed feedback that forms "notches" of positive and negative interference, and other endless modifications of the signal path.

About Harvestworks
Harvestworks' mission is to present experimental sound and visual artworks created in collaboration with our Technology, Engineering, Art and Music (TEAM) Lab. The Harvestworks T.E.A.M Lab supports the creation of art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies and provides an environment for experimentation with project consultants, technicians, instructors and innovative practitioners in all branches of the electronic arts. Our programs are made possible with funds from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, mediaThe foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Materials for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Jerome Foundation 50th Anniversary Grant, the Edwards Foundation Arts Fund, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Tokio Marine Nichido, Bloomberg Philanthropies, New Music USA's Cary New Music Performance Fund, and the Friends of Harvestworks.

[RobtSc]

So good. Look forward to Lori releasing a cd or vinyl...or both.