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Swoon
Aug 3, 2010 16:11:16 GMT -8
Post by hookedblog on Aug 3, 2010 16:11:16 GMT -8
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Swoon
Oct 25, 2010 7:16:43 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Oct 25, 2010 7:16:43 GMT -8
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Swoon
Nov 3, 2010 9:56:43 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Nov 3, 2010 9:56:43 GMT -8
Stopped by to check out the setup of her installation for the Black Rat Project's group show tomorrow ( showthread). More pics here.   |
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Swoon
Jan 21, 2011 8:39:06 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Jan 21, 2011 8:39:06 GMT -8
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Swoon
Mar 8, 2011 23:14:23 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Mar 8, 2011 23:14:23 GMT -8
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Swoon
Apr 25, 2011 9:34:10 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Apr 25, 2011 9:34:10 GMT -8
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Swoon
Jun 8, 2011 9:07:20 GMT -8
Post by djnologo on Jun 8, 2011 9:07:20 GMT -8
  'Alixa and Naima' by Swoon currently on show at Warrington Museum. |
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Swoon
Jul 1, 2011 5:55:11 GMT -8
Post by ricosg11 on Jul 1, 2011 5:55:11 GMT -8
About this project
A Grand Gift for a Unique City
From the salvaged remains of a decrepit Creole Cottage, the Brooklyn-based artist Swoon has re-imagined a permanent, interactive sculpture for the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans. We call it the Dithyrambalina. It will look like a house, but it will function like a musical instrument. A growing group of local and national sound artists are working towards interactive instruments that can be built into its walls and floorboards so that visitors can bring the house to life through their touch. Ultimately, musicians will be invited to play the house, performing orchestrated works at block parties for their friends and neighbors. This project is for the love of New Orleans - its architecture, music, culture and its people.
Swoon has designed the look of house and we have formed coalitions with everyone from architects to salvage suppliers. The next phase of our project is to create instrumentation for the house. This Fall our sound artists will publicly test their prototypes in a temporary installation we are calling The Music Box - A Shantytown Sound Laboratory.
Why Build A Musical House?
Even before the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans had been afflicted by huge numbers of run down properties and abandoned lots. These tragic symbols are the backdrop of city-wide dysfunction, but they are also the tableau in front of which New Orleans’ rich musical and visual heritage parades and performs. This project is an imaginative attempt to redress the futility of this blight by finding within it vast resources of salvageable materials. By turning our salvaged construction into a music box that is free, public, and playful we are inviting the wider community to imagine and participate in a new landscape of potential and possibility.
Your Support
Kinetic sound artists from New Orleans and across the country are coming together this fall to build The Music Box, A Shantytown Sound Laboratory. This is our testing ground for singing walls, organ floorboards, and percussion triggered by the human heartbeat.
Your support will directly benefit these artists who need time and money to develop their ideas. Interactive, mechanical art can be finicky and we need to get it right before we build the house. Our sound laboratory will be a place for collaboration, imagination, and public exploration. It is an important next step in realizing Swoon's vision of a musical architecture.
This campaign goal will help fund the prototyping of instruments for the house, but don't stop the pledges coming. We still have a house to build!
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Swoon
Sept 1, 2011 23:34:47 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Sept 1, 2011 23:34:47 GMT -8
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Swoon
Sept 2, 2011 10:14:25 GMT -8
Post by ricosg11 on Sept 2, 2011 10:14:25 GMT -8
and here i was worried she would have trouble getting support similar to Deitch. Full steam ahead.
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Swoon
Nov 25, 2011 23:39:11 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Nov 25, 2011 23:39:11 GMT -8
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Swoon
Jan 23, 2012 13:56:17 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Jan 23, 2012 13:56:17 GMT -8
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Swoon
Sept 26, 2012 16:05:30 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Sept 26, 2012 16:05:30 GMT -8
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Swoon
Nov 22, 2012 10:14:30 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Nov 22, 2012 10:14:30 GMT -8
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Swoon
Nov 25, 2012 9:01:02 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Nov 25, 2012 9:01:02 GMT -8
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Swoon
Jun 23, 2013 17:52:53 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Jun 23, 2013 17:52:53 GMT -8
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Swoon
Aug 23, 2013 20:24:53 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Aug 23, 2013 20:24:53 GMT -8
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Swoon
Nov 26, 2013 5:00:42 GMT -8
Post by saL on Nov 26, 2013 5:00:42 GMT -8
new Swoon print is now available @ Braddock Tiles website for $45:  Swoon Monica digital print on archival Canson Mi-Teintes paper 13″x19″ paper size edition of 250 embossed by Braddock Tiles $45 Available here! > |
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Swoon
Nov 29, 2013 0:00:43 GMT -8
Post by luffy06 on Nov 29, 2013 0:00:43 GMT -8
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Swoon
Dec 5, 2013 3:46:41 GMT -8
Post by saL on Dec 5, 2013 3:46:41 GMT -8
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Swoon
Dec 11, 2013 6:09:36 GMT -8
Post by luffy06 on Dec 11, 2013 6:09:36 GMT -8
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Swoon
Dec 27, 2013 5:15:53 GMT -8
Post by saL on Dec 27, 2013 5:15:53 GMT -8
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Swoon
Dec 30, 2013 5:17:10 GMT -8
Post by dailyverit on Dec 30, 2013 5:17:10 GMT -8
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Post by saL on Dec 30, 2013 8:16:11 GMT -8
^ here is the fixed link!.. thanks for sharing! |
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Swoon
Jan 7, 2014 20:46:24 GMT -8
Post by sleepboy on Jan 7, 2014 20:46:24 GMT -8
A look at the Braddock Tiles benefit show here.  |
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