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Steve Roden: day ring, night ring
Steve Rodin. Day Ring Sketch 1. 2006. Collage and pencil on paper. Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects.
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August 25, 2006
— November 12, 2006
Los Angeles artist Steve Roden debuted a pair of sound art compositions created in response to James Turrell’s Skyspace at the Henry. These new works were the latest in a series activating the spare forms of specific modern architectural structures with audio tracks composed of music and recorded sounds. day ring is a durational listening experience played at specific times during the museum’s regular hours. night ring, a continuous soundscape for the area near the Skyspace at night, presents a moment where visual, spatial, and aural perceptions become mutually enriching. Also on view in the Henry were two videos: four words for four hands (apple.mountain.over.frozen), a silent, vibrantly colorful meditation on the system of transcribing musical notes, by which the analytical process of reading music becomes a sensual visual experience; anything else &/or nothing at all (drawing circles for jackson mac low) layers Roden’s graphic translation of a fluxus composer’s score atop a 1950s art instruction film.
ARTISTS
Steve Roden
CREDITS
Curated by Sara Krajewski, Associate Curator.
Generously supported by Artsfund and Grand Hyatt Seattle.