PRESS RELEASE
APRIL 3rd, 2008
CONTACT: SEAN P. CONNOLLY (631.632.1056), STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MUSIC, ART, TECHNOLOGY

“SONIC RESIDUES” EXHIBITION AND CONCERT AT STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY, STONY BROOK, NY APRIL 29TH TO MAY 12TH, 2008

The Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture and Technology (cDACT) at Stony Brook University (www.stonybrook.edu/cDACT) presents the Sonic Residues Festival (www.sonicresidues.net), April 29th to May 12th, 2008, Stony Brook University.

The Sonic Residues Festival will develop subtle and complex spaces of auditory experience, organized loosely around the theme of the remainders left by vibrations in time and space. It is concerned with sound as a medium of artistic expression encompassing performance, sculpture, phonography, experimental notation, and installation. Our festival will synergistically combine a concert performance, a gallery exhibit, a series of portable media works, and provocative lectures as mediums of access to “sonic residues.”

The Sonic Residues Exhibition will take place in the Student Activities Center Art Gallery at Stony Brook University from April 29th to May 12th, 2008. The exhibition includes works by Mike Dory, Luke DuBois, Grady Gerbracht, Takafumi Ide, Stephen Lee, Annea Lockwood, Martine Loyato, Nobuho Nagasawa, Timothy Nohe, Jxel Rajchenberg, and others. There will also be a segment of European sound and video pieces curated by Valerie Vivancos. In addition, projects for personal media players will be available for download at the www.sonicresidues.net website.

The Sonic Residues Concert will take place in the Wang Center Theatre at Stony Brook University on May 12 at 7:30. The show includes Ray Anderson, Matthew Burtner, Odd Nosdam, Charlie Woodman, Pamela Z, Kinesthetech Sense, and other musicians. An after-party will follow the concert at the University Café, featuring music by Odd Nosdam and video by Luke DuBois.

The Sonic Residues Lecture Series includes: Luke DuBois (Keynote Speaker), March 26th at 3pm at the Humanities Institute, Rm. 1006; Melissa Ragona, May 7th at 4 pm in the Humanities Institute, Rm. 1006; and Pamela Z, May 12th at 3pm in the Wang Center Chapel.

The Organizers for the Sonic Residues Festival are Christa Erickson, Zabet Patterson, and Margaret Schedel. For further information, please contact Sean Connolly at 631.632.1056 or sonicresidues@gmail.com. Directions to Stony Brook can be found at http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/directions.shtml.

A residue draws a pattern. It can trace an evolving process, recreate an experience, or reimagine a prior event. It can weave pattern, both absent and present, into meaning. Singing beeps of cellular telephones and quick snips of overheard chatter increasingly punctuate the contemporary sonic landscape. We are constantly enveloped by sound to such an extent that its particular textures often disappear, receding into what we might term “noise.”