“Location Sound Films”
John Grzinich
10 July → 25 July 2009

The Location Sound Films project starts with the concept of site-specific artistic activity while integrating contemporary sound recording practices that cross the areas of performance, field recording, improvisation and documentation. With the site being the prime focus, the artist as actor and instigator uses the means of sound to investigate the qualities of a specific context and his or place in it.

Various techniques are used to make recordings, some more clearly visible than others, depending on the type of sound captured (stereo condenser microphones or contact microphones). For this installation, a selection of my films has been edited as a multi-screen, multi-channel environment that plays on random, creating a continually shifting chance composition.

As a mixed-media artist, John Grzinich has worked primarily with sound composition, performance and installation since the early 1990s with a focus on site-specific and acoustic sound activity. He is a program and media lab coordinator for MoKS – Center for Art and Social Practice, an international artist residency centre and project space in south east Estonia.