Through a Voice
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A note from the artist
This past year, I created an installation called Six Accompaniments for Solo Voice, in which six park benches in the Snell-Hitchcock Quad at the University of Chicago are outfitted with small sound systems. Each bench contains one of the six accompaniments, quiet musical tracks designed to support and interact with the constant, droning sound made by the ventilation system atop the Chemistry building, which fills the quad at all hours — the “solo voice” of the title.
In November 2018, I was allowed to visit the roof of the Chemistry building and make recordings of the noisy machinery at close range. These recordings reveal with great clarity some of the pitches and rhythms that eventually filter through to listeners below. Through a Voice is a composed walk through the recordings I made that day. This piece documents the experience of listening among these enormous machines.
Six Accompaniments for Solo Voice is currently being exhibited at part of the Chicago Sound Show at the University of Chicago, which is open through December 29, 2019.
Stephan Moore
Stephan Moore is a sound artist with a practice that encompasses field recording, physical computing, theatrical sound design, installation art and improvisation. He teaches in the Sound Arts and Industries program at Northwestern University, and is the curator of Sound Art at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, NY. He lives in Chicago.
