Song Cabinet
February 01, 2012
Song Cabinet
2010, Mixed Media, Sound, Electronics
Song Cabinet
2010
Mixed Media, Sound and Electronics
Song Cabinet is an interactive music piece that users activate by exploring the contents of a set of drawers. Each drawer contains small digitally controlled mechanical instruments that play varying patterns depending on how far out it is pulled. By opening and closing drawers, users mix the song, muting and unmuting the various parts and selecting different musical patterns. The objects contained in each drawer, culled from the artist’s personal collection, are associated with particular places, indicated by the drawers’ labels. In exploring the collection, users coax these static objects into a rhythmic dialog with each other and create an intermingling of their associated memories.
This version of the piece is a study for a room-sized version with many more drawers, sound making devices and and combinations of musical parts.
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Radiolarian Chair
January 31, 2012
Radiolarian Chair
A chair based on an 1862 Ernst Haeckel Radiolarian Illustration
Digitally designed, cut from birch plywood using a CNC router and hand painted.
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Mechanical Instruments at Sequence of Waves – St. Cecelia’s Convent Jan 2011
January 30, 2012
Sequence of Waves was a giant crazy sound art show put on by the Rabid Hands Collective at St. Cecilia’s, a former convent in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
This Was my setup, including a Mechanical Drumming Beetle, an electric lamellophone made of street sweeper tines and a helmet that played percussion around your head.
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/feb/1/sequence-waves/
http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/sequence-of-waves-in-brooklyn-closes-this-weekend
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Warsaw Machines & Songs
January 13, 2012
New EP featuring of songs and mechanical instruments created during my residency at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw’s A-I-R Laboratory
Now Available for download and Vinyl/CD preorder
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Index Boogie at PS1
December 22, 2011
Performing my piece Index Boogie using mechanical percussion, books and lab glass at PS1 during the M. Wells Winter Carnival, December 2011
thanks to Sarah Kramer for the video
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Wave Whistle
December 19, 2011
The Wave Whistle uses the contours of a digital audio wave form to define the shape of a musical instrument, turning a visual representation of digitized sound into a physical sound making object.
This first prototype uses one on my favorite recordings as source material — Sam Cooke performing “Bring it on Home to Me” live at the Harlem square club in 1963 (audio used in the whistle’s waveform begins at 2:40):
continue…
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Copper Forest
December 16, 2011
Copper forest 2008
Mixed Media, Sound, Electronics
Created for the group show “Once upon a Time” at the Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery in Soho.
Components in this installation included: xylophone, glockenspiel, reed organ, percussion instruments, mechanically animated artificial tree, horn speakers and radio transmitter.
Goliath beetle Automata
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No Bills: Stories of North Brooklyn
December 14, 2011
No Bills Selections by No_Bills
No Bills presented audio oral histories about North Brooklyn through listening stations situated in construction fences and on the street. It created serendipitous encounters for passersby, inviting them to engage with the neighborhood’s history while standing at the sites of its developing future. Starting in the fall of 2010, Yulman and nbART reached out to community members, including long term residents, business owners and community leaders, from around North Brooklyn to record their stories about the neighborhood. From July through September 2011, the project was installed at sites throughout Williamsburg, including the McCarren Park Pool and the Triangle Court construction sites and Ventana244 Gallery.
A closing event for the project was held on October 16th at Union Docs in Williamsburg
http://www.uniondocs.org/no-bills/
No Bills is presented by nbART and is sponsored in part by funding from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council. The NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn provided additional support.
Additional info and site locations can be found here:
http://www.nobillsstories.org/
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Warsaw Machines & Songs Preview
December 13, 2011
A track from my forthcoming EP, documenting instruments and music created during my 2010 Residency at the Centre for Contemporary Art Warsaw Ujazdowski Castle’s A-I-R Lab.
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ITP NIME Show this Sunday at Cameo Gallery
December 07, 2011
I’ll be performing along with my fellow ITPers in this showcase of unusual musical instruments.
It’ll be like a weird music circus.
NIME: New Interfaces for Musical Expression – Creating new performance tools for digital music.
21 and Over. Entry is $10 (Free for NYU ID holders)
Doors open at 7pm, Show starts at 8pm
http://www.facebook.com/ical/event.php?eid=191415680945277
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NYC Immigration Song
November 07, 2011
NYC Immigration Song:
Data Representation of NYC immigration data from 1855 – 2000.
The data is represented as follows:
Distance from point of origin to NYC (based on latitude and longitude data):
-Pitch of note (lower = longer distance)
-Stereo pan of note (spread from left to right according to how far East or West of NYC the point of origin falls on the map)
-Length and position of line
Number of people:
-Volume of note (louder – more people)
-Number of repetitions of note (1 rep = 1000 people)
-Alpha value (opacity) of line
Data source:
U.S. Census data as compiled in the Encyclopedia of New York City 2nd Edition
This digital version is a study for a physical installation using piano wires as a sound source and mechanical damping and striking mechanisms:
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Sunday October 16th: No Bills Listening Event at Union Docs
October 09, 2011
Sunday October 16th 7:30 pm
Union Docs 322 Union Ave. in Williamsburg
http://www.uniondocs.org/no-bills/
No Bills Selections by No_Bills
Nick Yulman and the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition (nbART) host this event to mark the closing of Yulman’s public sound installation and oral history project.
No Bills presented audio oral histories about North Brooklyn through listening stations situated in construction fences and on the street to create serendipitous encounters for passersby, inviting them to engage with neighborhood’s history while standing at the sites of its developing future. Starting in the fall of 2010, Yulman and nbART reached out to community members, including long term residents, business owners and community leaders, from around North Brooklyn to record their stories about the neighborhood. From July through September, the project was installed at sites throughout Williamsburg, including the McCarren Park Pool and the Triangle Court construction site, a few blocks away from UnionDocs.
This event will feature selected recordings from the project, ranging from family immigration stories to accounts of the 1975 sit-in at the People’s Firehouse, followed by discussion with the artist and project participants.
No Bills is presented by nbART and is sponsored in part by funding from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council. The NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn provided additional support.
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Coppercussion/Papercussion
October 03, 2011
Coppercussion/Papercussion
2011 with Hope Dector
Coppercussion/Papercussion is a piece created in collaboration with printmaker Hope Dector that uses copper etching plates both to imprint paper and as sound sources electromechanical percussion instruments. The piece responds to viewers’ presence, altering the rhythms it plays as they get closer to it. The triggering mechanisms for the instruments (solenoids) are made up of copper coils.
The piece was created for our shared exhibit at the 2011 Dumbo Arts Festival, which also featured a selection of Hope’s prints and my piece “Song Cabinet” and won the Festival’s Audience Choice Award.
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Grown Music
October 02, 2011
Grown Music
2011 with Ryan Murdock
Grown Music, is a video and sound piece created with Ryan Murdock that uses the time lapse footage of a 5′x5′ garden plot shot over the course of 3 months as a score/data source for creating algorithmic music. The growth and movement of the garden’s plants are reflected in sound generated by a program that analyses changing patterns in each frame of the video. The music uses both electronically generated sounds and recordings of the plants themselves. The video was screened directly above the garden plot that served as the visuals and audio source.
It was created for and presented as part of 5x5x5, a gardening & art project curated by Nora Herting and Ann Chen.
For the harvest celebration at the end of the growing season, we projected the video behind the bed of plants that generated it. The structure framing the image is the frame we built for the overhead time lapse camera:
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GEEKDOWN at 92Y Tribeca
August 14, 2011
Song Cabinet is on display as part of GEEKDOWN, group show at the 92Y Tribeca
Covered by NY1
Musea
and Grungecake
August 13 – September 9th @ 92Y Tribeca 200 Hudson St.
http://geekdown.com/
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Performance July 16th: Cinema 16 Benefit for Millennium Film Workshop
July 15, 2011
 8pm SATURDAY JULY 16$20 DONATION Cinema 16 presents an evening of avant-garde films with live musical scores in encore performances from past Cinema 16 events, in an evening to benefit the esteemed media arts center, Millennium Film Workshop.The evening will include Brooklyn-based, minimal synth trio FORMA (Mark Dwinell, Sophie Lam, George Bennett) performing to Maya Deren’s At Land, Brooklyn-based sound artist NICK YULMAN with the 1927 film by Charley Bowers A Wild Roomer, ABLEHEARTS (Brooklyn sound and video artist THOMAS ARSENAULT) performing to Kihachiro Kawamoto’s “Dojoji Temple,” and singer and artist JOSEPH KECKLER with Busby Berkeley’s Gold Diggers of 1935Melding the worlds of art, music, and film, curator Molly Surno aims to recreate the silent film era, and resurrect the communal performance experience. Bands are invited to compose a musical score in order to modernize the tradition of a live music accompanying films during the 1920s. Cinema 16 initially began in 1947 as a New York based avant-garde film society; now over four decades later, Surno is bringing the spirit of Cinema 16 back to be experienced by a new generation of filmgoers. Don’t miss this extraordinary one night event.
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ITP Spring Show
May 24, 2011
Come See Lev’s Adventures in Etherland (Theremin Controlled Video Game) at the ITP Show . 421 Broadway 4th Floor.
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Panaudicon: Warsaw Castles & Palaces (Warszawa Zamki i Pałace)
February 21, 2011
Panaudicon: Warsaw Castles & Palaces (Warszawa Zamki i Pałace)
2010
Layered Binaural Recordings Made at Castles & Palaces around Warsaw
Panaudicon: Warsaw Castles and Palaces (Warszawa Zamki i Pałace) by trustynick
