phonophilia

This project is a guerilla performance/audio piece that utilizes 3 bike-borne mobile sound systems playing back precomposed sound collages produced by myself. The performers of this piece, The Loud Spokers, are led and conducted by me in a sort of synchronized but semi-improvisational route through a section of the city.

The goal of the piece is to play with notions of accepted and expected ambient sound in a public space, and to inject surprising, and at times subversive, audio information into the consciousnesses of urban dwellers. Also, a more formal concern is one of rapidly varying spatialization of sound in an uncontrolled environment.

The Loud Spokers made their debut on Augst 14, 2002, at Waterfront Park in Portland.