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. Future performances are planned for the near future.