Coppice Droopy

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.

Droopy

2013

Photo by Yoni Goldstein

Corrugated tubing
Metal tubing
Apiary
Flue pipe
Transmitters
Metal reed box
Plastic bladder with valve

Inspired by the amazing variety of ferns at the Lincoln Park Conservatory and the moist environment in which they thrive, Droopy added several sound specimens to the Fern Room collection.

July 14 – November 10, 2013 – Fern Room, Lincoln Park Conservatory, curated by Lou Mallozzi for Experimental Sound Studio’s Florasonic series, presented in partnership with the Chicago Park District; Chicago, IL

View photos