Building 2, Floor 2
August 21, 2009
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Sound Installation
Admission: Free, Open to public
Parking: Main Parking Lot

An immersive sonic environment consisting of a variety of sources dispersed in a large, reverberant, and otherwise empty space.

Making use of the space as a whole, resonant materials become loudspeakers, transforming physical structures into a pulsating, whirring sound-field of tones and unearthly, disembodied voices. Amidst this continuous sonic pall is an array of malfunctioning equipment and modified media, skipping, stuttering and otherwise punctuating the ethereal din.

Audio materials include spoken text, music, electro-acoustic feedback manipulation, and drones.

While the piece is essentially without program or narrative, it might be approached as a co-mingling of separate and distinct aural events, at once demonstrating the impermanent nature of all phenomena and highlighting the beauty inherent in their often violent birth/ growth, and necessary decay/ dissolution - extremes orbiting around the ultimate reality of the present moment.

Informed as much by the Japanese aesthetic principle of Wabi-Sabi as DIY Hacking culture, unrelenting IS invites one to dwell for a time in wondrous imperfection and poignant transience.

this world of dew
is only a world of dew
and yet...

- Issa

About Khristian
Khristian Weeks is a sound artist/designer and improviser living in Durham, NC. His works span a wide range of genres, including chamber music, ambient minimalism, sound installation, field and environmental recording, incidental music, experimental folk, and live electronic improvisation. His performance installations blend these various and often disparate elements into multi-textural soundscapes that blur the distinction between music and sound art.