Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Frequency is inspired by African-American writer Ralph Ellison. In a passage from his 1952 novel The Invisible Man, the protagonist claims to speak for others on a frequency not heard by all. Ellison was a musician and audiophile, and his experience building audio systems may have led to this now canonical literary construction. This language has been taken up in political and historical studies to address unrecorded histories and untracked political discourse (as “politics on the lower frequencies”). Frequency, together with Timbre (installed elsewhere at Caramoor) work together like the A side and B side of a record. Each work hints at an alternate way of listening, an opportunity to perceive something beyond the surface. They are from a larger series of projects using sound, text, and, sculpture that the artists call “tonotypes”.
Learn more at caramoor.org/upcoming-events/sonic-innovations.
Frequency is inspired by African-American writer Ralph Ellison. In a passage from his 1952 novel The Invisible Man, the protagonist claims to speak for others on a frequency not heard by all. Ellison was a musician and audiophile, and his experience building audio systems may have led to this now canonical literary construction. This language has been taken up in political and historical studies to address unrecorded histories and untracked political discourse (as “politics on the lower frequencies”). Frequency, together with Timbre (installed elsewhere at Caramoor) work together like the A side and B side of a record. Each work hints at an alternate way of listening, an opportunity to perceive something beyond the surface. They are from a larger series of projects using sound, text, and, sculpture that the artists call “tonotypes”.
Learn more at caramoor.org/upcoming-events/sonic-innovations.
