Coppice Vinculum re: Screens for Mutual Attractions to Related Objects (Some Impossible)

Coppice was founded by Noé Cuéllar and Joseph Kramer in Chicago in 2009, as an inquiry into the capture and generation of music and its relationship to its physical sources.

Its compound studies include Bellows & Electronics (prepared pump organs, shruti boxes, and tape processors) between 2009–2014, and Physical Modeling & Modular Syntheses between 2014–2018; focusing on the interactions between direct and reproduced sound, and the perceptual links between original and emulated sources, respectively.

Its third study in Phonography & Fiction (in progress since 2018) scrutinizes the dynamics between its previous two studies, and their relationship to architecture and time: the acoustic preservation and obsolescence of the Yerkes Observatory’s refractor and reflector telescopes in Williams Bay being the locus of investigation.

With sustained interest in sound’s capacity to cross domains, Coppice crafts pathways between music and technology in a cross-disciplinary language, resulting in work that is an overarching documentation of experimental music in-formation. Operating in cycles of instrument construction and modification, recordings, and live presentations, its productions incorporate sound design, sculpture, installation, software, images, and video.

Vinculum re: Screens for Mutual Attractions to Related Objects (Some Impossible)

2015

Vinculum Screens
Modified Boombox IV
Electronics
Capillaries
Multiple speakers (installation)

A set of sound sculptures was designed to transduce sounds of physical modeling synthesis. Each sculpture rendered electronic sounds through the specific characteristics of acrylic, brass, copper, cork, and galvanized steel.

Conceived and developed in response to Jean-Luc Mylayne’s exhibition Mutual Regard, presented at The Arts Club Chicago and at C16, Small Chapel for One Person or at Most a Couple (April 1987), a public project presented by the Art Institute of Chicago.

Thank you to Paul Durica.

October 3, 2015 – current – 6018 North; Chicago, IL – installation of re: Coil’s “Where Are You?” for 6018 North affiliate partnership with Chicago Architecture Biennial
August 22, 2015, 1 PM – Mutual Regard at Millennium Park’s Lurie Garden; Chicago, IL – Performance series at C16, Small Chapel for One Person or at Most a Couple (April 1987), a public project presented by the Art Institute of Chicago
July 25, 2015, 1 PM – The Arts Club Chicago; Chicago, IL – In Concert Series

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