Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
…remnants is an immersive sound installation combining live transducer-activated resonant instruments and found objects with binaural bone-conducting headphone listening for one person at a time. (Covid restrictions).
…remnants is part of an ongoing series of compositional installations and performance works using transducers that explore the nature of space, materiality, and the physicality of listening.
Individually, audience members wearing wireless bone-conducting headphones enter the installation space filled with broken and shattered string instruments. Upon entrance, the installation comes sonically to life: sounds emerge from the instruments, mixing with disembodied sound from the headphones. The installation reacts to their path through the space, responding to their distance to each object, the history of what has sounded, and the history of their movements to create an ever-changing, responsive, and personalized experience.
Matthew Goodheart is a composer, improviser, sound installation artist, and educator. A lifelong teacher, he is and Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Rensselaer Polytechnic University.
Performer: Yang Sun
Videographer: Carlton Bright
Presented in The Workings of Media [art and artists] exhibition on Governors Island in Fall 2021.
Produced in part through the artist in residence program at Harvestworks.
…remnants is an immersive sound installation combining live transducer-activated resonant instruments and found objects with binaural bone-conducting headphone listening for one person at a time. (Covid restrictions).
…remnants is part of an ongoing series of compositional installations and performance works using transducers that explore the nature of space, materiality, and the physicality of listening.
Individually, audience members wearing wireless bone-conducting headphones enter the installation space filled with broken and shattered string instruments. Upon entrance, the installation comes sonically to life: sounds emerge from the instruments, mixing with disembodied sound from the headphones. The installation reacts to their path through the space, responding to their distance to each object, the history of what has sounded, and the history of their movements to create an ever-changing, responsive, and personalized experience.
Matthew Goodheart is a composer, improviser, sound installation artist, and educator. A lifelong teacher, he is and Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Rensselaer Polytechnic University.
Performer: Yang Sun
Videographer: Carlton Bright
Presented in The Workings of Media [art and artists] exhibition on Governors Island in Fall 2021.
Produced in part through the artist in residence program at Harvestworks.
![Recording of [June 16] INHERENT UNCERTAINTY by Paul Geluso, Clinton Van Arnam, Ivana Dama](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tjDC2OEBwis/mqdefault.jpg "Recording of [June 16] INHERENT UNCERTAINTY by Paul Geluso, Clinton Van Arnam, Ivana Dama
Live data analysis of Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 worldwide data is used to create this generative sound piece. Data is sent through custom software into analog and digital synthesizers which trigger visuals formed by news clips recorded on June 1st, 2020 during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd.
The title Inherent Uncertainty represents our current state of affairs and the systems we are seeing crumble before our own eyes. As the viewer listens to the sound shift and change, these shifts are simply the analysis of the destruction of the virus. This project explores the unpredictability of our future and the thin veneer that we define as a ‘civil’ society.
Software engineering by John Brumley. Music by Paul Geluso and Clinton Van Arnam. Visuals by Ivana Dama in collaboration with Clinton Van Arnam. Creative collaboration with Harvestworks, New York including Carol Parkinson, and Paul Geluso. Mentorship and creative vision in partnership with Victoria Vesna, UCLA.
SOUNDING CORONA series is co-conceptualized by the UCLA ArtSci Center, and Harvestworks NY with the intent of composing and amplifying the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 worldwide data live data analysis including total recovered, deaths, and cases. Throughout this ongoing summer series, sound artists will be invited to use the texture of this data as an underlying vibration for engagement. With this collective sound and image exploration we seek to illuminate the interconnectivity of events around the world.")
