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among the letters
seeking collaboration: a,
class accepted
by Dean Gilmore; networking
announcement: by
Gloria DeFilipps Brush>> A syllabus and a TRYON
FOLDER-
covering conceps and prospects for the audio-centered class was
available to faculty and anyone interested.1970-72 (both
in progress); <<
school poster, flyers, Broadcasting
Magazine yearbook excerpted
page
helium-filled selfbroadcasting
VEE balloons & hexagrams
monitor winds, phenomena / Sonia Sheridan's 1960s Generative Systems
/ selfbroadcasting Giant
IVORIES east bound on the Chicago river / free
radio blimp radio / modulated laser drawings on cloud bottoms / 2007
leif BRUSH
2, 3
compliations
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MFA concepts,
projects, audible sculpture, soundworks,
audible constructs, mind voice network School of the Art
Institute Chicago, 1970 - 1972)
SAIC upper roof photo looks east and one tower from
a subroof Hexagram (E) is seen
Photograph, taken by Gloria
Brush, depicts the galvanized steel strandage and opening the
green box below reveals a comprehensive look see: windmonitors
and windslicers which serve as combined triangular and rectalinear
sensing planes, et cetera. As sounding inputs, all wires intercept
blustery winds reflected downwards from the buildings on Michigan
Avenue--having originated as a northerly from Lake Michigan. Custs
meandered, often times collided with traffic noises, re-sounding
from nearby Loop buildings. These resources served as sound inputs
to the Arp synthesizer, student ears and cassette/reel-to-reel
recordings, and input seekingr Greedy Suckers band responses.
Horizontal galvanized
steel strands of the sensed wind monitor covered the E-W length
of this upper roof (below) where its top faces East; skematic
context of SAIC roof (below grren box))all the details of the
construction
.. 
1971 fr/cassette
RE: Hxagram sounding experiments, etcetera;in-class LB chatter,
local radio
SAIC
subroof, Chicago
L: John Smead, Les Doyle, Leif Brush,
Dennis Kugler, Ed Heffernan and Seton Coggeshall were on the SAIC
subroof . R: detail Hexagram setup: amplifying windslicer strands...listening...
checking out connection to mixer/console in classroom 201 below
SOUNDBYTE 
these same wires are being
used here as a microphone; a physically.attached Shadow 20l sensor
input could handle any input from the Greedy Sucker's & their
ARP sythesizer, JPG, 2)
located in the (Chicago Tribune founders dedicated:) Colonel Robert
R.McCormick Class Room 201 below
Detail of a portion of the East-West
strandage of the Hxagram's main monitoring wind plane installation:
Hexagram employs avariety og. 16,18, 20 & 22 gauge steel strands.
Sensor varieties combinated crystal, accelerometer and DeMarzio
magnetic transducers. Not grounded, these wire could piuck suchGiving
the Chicago weather forecast for sailing on nearby Lake Michigan.
Pictured: that first 22 gauge wire you see was literally in
LB's mouth as these wires were all sensitive as any ribbon
microphone 2!
Overall the sound resulting was as if you were in a blackwhole,
where there are no acoustic walls. The spatial sounding results
were deeply moving when listened to via these headphones. Tom
talked along with LB but he was not close enought to the wires
for me to hear him.. Interestingly, an airplanes higher pitch
overhead was audible in the 'phones as were flys buzzing across
across and direct hits by other insects impacting these strands.
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& wind-mixed<< data poetry same as 2007
Vee
balloons carried FM transmitters aloft while FM receivers below
listened to the various sound layerings. This SAIC building was centrally
located between Lake Michigan and the two mile long building facades
lining Michigan Avenue. Orchestra Hall was diagonally across from
The Art Institute main building's lion pair.
An
interactive dance by Goodman Theatre students preceeded the launch
of helium-filled balloons carrying an altered load: the pop painting
had to be reduced considerably for it to lift away. Permission
was given from O'Hare Airport officials during this late morning
time. It was expected to head out over Lake Michigan, it did,
and was later recovered in South Dakota.
This
extra credit project was based on an idea I passedaround during
hallway talks with Audible Constructs students and we later found
this weather balloon.
Have a listen says Ed Heffernan
(L)
Ed Heffernan (left) alerts the class that there's a
storm blowing from Lake Michigan toward the buildings lining Michigan
Avenue, richocheting above the SAIC roof and into the Hexagram
configurations.
Part of this is the combination of wires that cross
another portion of the same roof, and it is these collisions which
are being monitored in Room 201 below. This storminess above hgasand
the windslicers going out of control and setting up deafening
spikes on the community headphones.
John O'Buck Leif
Brush Matthew Kolasinski (wireless mic); reel-to-reel
4 track TEAC, console & amplifier;
INPUT SOURCES: roof HEXAGRAM and WINDSLICERS, FM balloons aloft,
Greedy Suckers, ARP synthisizer, FM two-way balloon sound-bounced
relays
Audible Constructs Room 201 (see plaque top right)
was dedicated by Colonel Robert R. McCormick- former publisher/owner
of the Chicago Daily Tribune and a regular "broadcaster"
on analog AM radio station WGN (worlds greatest newspaper)
January 1972 photographs by Audible Constructs
student Les Doyle
Atmospherically, our working day included
the usual install challenges; we were lucky by having light, fluffy
snow flakes with mild to gustiness winds, which were ideal for
our Shadow
sensors and their preamps. All outputs were (DC) battery powered
from the SHURE Pro mixer which had the 600 Ohms
we needed to match the analog telco lines between Michigan Bell-Paw
Paw to Illinois Bell-Evanston. Due to the chill factor: beeswax-
malleable by using a drop of 30w car oil- was used to join a sensor
in a particular place on the wire after being warmed by grasping
both elements between finger/thumb and held for a period of time
before pressing each toward the other onto the wire.
Les's images were output from a thermal
printer in these installation details of the snow monitors. LEFT-
froma strand directly in front of Leif, the monitoring and mixing
of the overall snow flake impacts were combined with oscillating
wind vibrations being fed realtime via telco lines to Gloria's
cassette -for recording- in Illinois. RIGHT- installing the 2nd
of two wires criss-crossing the field; both were 22 gauge galvanized
steel strands, were held held a foot off the ground and b oth
were tightened with hefty
turnbuckles at an approximate foot between them. Here's
a sampling
from Gloria's cassette recordings. You can literally listen to
all the mechanical sound steps being transmitted over telephone
wires between Paw Paw and Evanston Illinois. It's doubly significant
because you are hearing the historical Strowger
system which literally steps its way from circuit to succeeding
circuit 'til it finally connects with the destination. Then, you'll
hear the burst of the audio portion we have originated in realtime
from our site in Michigan: snow flakes strike the wires and the
wind bangs the metal strands together. Suddenly- we're abruptly
cut off. Be advised that you may have to turn down the volume
of this intercepted source.
Sonia Landy Sheridan
Sonia 2)
John Dunn Gallery
Sonia and Leif in Wilmette basement comparing
print results
I shared Sonia's personal energy, quest for inovation,
telepathy and technologies.
Sonia's Generative
System's 3M Color-in-Color
printer
self portrait collage using this machine
and photograph by Gloria Brush
Poster for exhibition
at Xavier College Gallery exhibit with Gloria
PAYTV
was being talked about and I thought of ways to deliver alternative
imaging which would offer a smorgasbord for dial turners
to
a Sonia SAIC publication
Multi-colored laser sky
drawing concepts were executed in this lithograph where the spelling
of nasturtium on low cloud bottoms was to be combined and interspersed
with repetitive bursts of laser beams.
Conceptual drawing: anticipating audio/imaging sonogram
The lower surface
of the cloud base would be sequentially video scanned in red,
blue and green modulated audio&video lasers. Ground based
retro reflectors would collate, multiplex the composite, execute
a microwave satellite uplinking and demux in realtime via video/audio
synthesizer. return
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1967 painting & drawing
student
our faux 3D image:
1968 winter drive to Minnesota in Gloria's 1300 VW
Giant IVORIES on
the Chicago River carried the Greedy Suckers band- who
made themselves available to Audible Constructs class students.
The G S FM radio transmitters broadcast ARP synth,w/their sound
to radios lining the shore walkways (of the sometimes dirtied
Chicago River).
Titled Art is a
congealed hard terd below 5k feet- this color lithographic Hexagram print -hovers above
Chicago's Goldberg Towers, North of the loop and overlooks the
floating Ivories on the river below. At this elevation, it was
easy to hear the mixed FM-transmissions of the Greedy Suckers
band from each of the Ivory floating bars.
Chicago river, 1971
Prior to and after I had submitted
my proposal for a sound class to Dean Gilmore, I discussed my
concepts with students and faculty in the halls to get their support
and listened to their reactions to this audio-centered class.
I also mentioned that I will write to the Proctor & Gamble
Company in Cincinnati Ohio US expressing to them my desire to
have their corporate consent in sponsoring any upcoming and related
Audible Constructs class endeavors. I especially complemented
P&Gs IVORY floating soap and their other non-polluting products
like Ivory Flakes laundry detergents. (I can't remember details
of my remarks, but they did relate to cleaning up streams, etc.)
A newly installed Xerox black and white copier in the art office
cost 5 cents per copy; however, since I sent my letter and attachments
from a west side apartment and included a draft proposal of my
class, I did not make copies on SAIC's machine. The above collage/drawing
on a photograph resulted from having talked to friends in SAIC's
halls . The Greedy Suckers band (featuring an Arp synthesizer)
would have played into FM transmitters broadcasting to the shores
lining the river. Performing from atop these giant ivories(pictured
above) the players would have slowy drifted west to east on the
Chicago River-paralleling a portion of upper Wacker Drive- in
front of the Merchandise Mart, Goldberg Towers (photo left), Sun-Times.
Wrigley, Chicago Tribune, London Guarantee buildings and beneath
several north-sound bridge over passes. They of course would have
been required to stop short of floating onto Lake Michigan. P&G's Helen
P. Kuether responded
BARBARA
CRANE "Chicago Loop" silver print, 1976
Eventually
scheduled to arrive near the North Pole, a pneumatic hexagram
hovers over the Chicago Loop recording layers of ambient sounds
during early morning before rush hour. Mayor
Richard J. Daley 1 complains to SAIC Dean Roger Gilmore: "...it
was just too darn close to the Bertrand Goldberg Towers (below
in upper left image and in Barbara Crane's Tower detail photograph)."
IVORY
soap pollution is minimal and eventually reaches Lake Michigan
& most other P&G products are not as "pure"
Questions
remain. How to get money from George and how to pay for AT&Ts
conference calls needed to coordinate this project, et cetera
this
print poders various issues; however, every named person at the
bottom gave $s to help with this lithographic Odessy
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