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Keller
creates work in different media, including field recording, sound design,
performance, and digital media. His work explores formal ideas of narrative,
investigates the relationship between authentic sound events and recorded
ones, and uses different experimental production techniques. Meri
von KleinSmid has created sound art and experimental music using
a variety of techniques and sources, which have included collage and computer-manipulated
electronic compositions. Her often quirky work has been described as stunning,
uniquely expansive, sparse, and frightening. Steve
Barsotti is a sound artist and educator who lives in Seattle.
His work includes studio based explorations of sound for radio broadcast,
site specific sound installation, and improvisation on electro-acoustic
instruments. Steve has performed in the United States, Canada and Europe. Christopher
DeLaurenti is a composer, improvisor, and music writer. About
his work, he writes, "My music, the offspring of my love affair with
sound, incorporates murky atmospheres, unusual field recordings, everyday
speech, and an array of instruments deployed in maniacal recombinant polyphony.
I seek not only to capture the ordinary and extraordinary sounds of everyday
life, but to bear witness to current crises that touch my conscience and
impel me to respond." Seattle Phonographers Union is a collective of artists that convene to explore the ways in
which we recognize, ifferentiate, map, and navigate our sonic
environment. Our intent is to move beyond habitual experience of sound and uncover what is foreign in the familiar and familiar about
the foreign; to explore what we hear and relearn what we know.
Some sounds will be familiar, others less so. Both novel and familiar
sounds will be juxtaposed in ways unique to each event. Our intent is
to investigate and enrich both our intuitive and analytical relationship
with sound. The goal is not to excite, confuse or entertain per se, but to attend to the world, which is much more detailed and diverse than
any one person's perception of it." (from program notes written by
Yitzchak Dumiel for the very first SPU performance in 2002)
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