commissioned by the MATA Festival

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/cloud-to-air-2013/

cloud-to-air

headphone work to accompany drawing

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/100-circles-for-the-head/

100 circles for the head (25x4)

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/zero-point/

zero point

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/surface-studies-ice-abovebelow/

surface studies (ice)

The concept of L’immensité Intime, as articulated by Gaston Bachelard in his classic text The Poetics of Space, describes a raising to consciousness of the expanded interior dimensions of oneself across diverse typologies of space. The excerpt presented here is the result of a direct, unedited and unprocessed recording of the eight radiators in my former apartment in Troy, NY. The independent sounds from each radiator were captured by eight closely-placed microphones; the radiators themselves were distributed over two floors of the apartment building. The sound was recorded over the span of a single hour in the evening and mixed directly to stereo, presenting to the ear an improbable auditory image of the structure of the building. The result is at once a collapsing of space and an expansion of spatial awareness through the presentation of multiple points of audition at the same time.

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/limmensite-intime/

l'immensite intime excerpt

Trained on the trees visible in the break in the buildings opposite the gallery, the hole in the paper causes tension for stereoscopic viewing. When you close one eye, the trees visible through the hole flatten out, the depth of field contracts and the viewer resolves the trees and has agency over the framing while being denied (by the frame) access to the street context in which the trees live as well as the bustle of the street activity that surrounds them/us. The sound of the wind being played from the transducer mounted to (and making a speaker out of) the window becomes a sound track here, but one that re-contextualizes the trees within the fiction/memory space of the show.

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/tension-and-contraction/

tension and contraction

produced for Radia - commissioned by Wavefarm.

I grew up rurally in the foothills of the Berkshire mountains on the eastern border of New York state and the states of Vermont and Massachusetts. Though I was at the periphery of three minor cities,  each had colleges and local radio programming, leaving me at the center of the overlapping zones of their respective radio broadcast regions. When the whether would shift, the access would change; the pattern of expected scheduled programming was tethered to the randomness of the weather within the loose pattern of the four seasons. The material presented in this work represents common sound memories to each of the places I've lived in the last 7 years: the city of Troy in the state of New York, the city of Paris in France, the borough of Hightstown in central New Jersey, and the town of Oxford in the southwest corner of Ohio. Sirens, bells, rain, snow, wind, birds, footsteps, and traffic represent substantial areas of overlap between the soundscapes of each home. The work ebbs and flows between these geographic markers with the randomness of weather, finding pattern in the blurry boundaries of memory recorded as sound.

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/the-exercise-of-memory/

The Exercise of Memory

performing at Fridman Gallery, NYC
July 16, 2015

Audio Production and Recording: Gus Callahan


fridman gallery - solo voice with quad electronics and field recordings

live at ALLGOLD MoMA/PS1

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/inward-turning-histories/

Inward Turning History - Excerpt

From the 2006 FoArm festival, Portland, OR

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/as-the-hour-jumps-to-your-eyes/

As The Hour

commissioned for the 99 Objects program at the Whitney Museum of American Art

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/no-walls-for-lewitt/

no walls (for LeWitt)

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/bean-counting-for-alison-knowles-2/

bean counting (for alison knowles)

performed by Catch Guitar Quartet

for the full track and album: https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/objects-of-memory

a murmur which redoubles - excerpt

performed by Clogs

for the full track and album: https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/objects-of-memory

objects in stillness (performed by clogs) - excerpt

commissioned by Seth Josel, recording from the Essl Samlung

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/the-little-by-little-suddenly/

the little by little suddenly (performed by seth josel)

commissioned by hong kong sinfonietta and ensemble offspring. premiered at artistree in hong kong.

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/interference-is-partial-afterimage/

Interference is Partial / Afterimage

Live two channel recording of 12-channel live performance with video at Metrónom Barcelona, November 16, 2019

for more information: http://sethcluett.com/works/into-implicit-secrecy-and-silence-3/

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