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December 01, 2005

Paul Geluso

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Homage to a Site

New York based sound artist and composer Paul Geluso creates a site specific multichannel installation with seemingly abstract processed sounds, devoid of recognisable musical form. Each channel plays sound textures at different lengths; as time goes by the relationship between the sounds drifts apart, inviting the site’s ambient sounds into the ephemeral moment. The familiar and the unknown are infinitely juxtaposed.

A sound narrative takes form through sampled sounds from the site, relating to its past and present, its regeneration and transition. Sensations of the site’s unique spatial dimensions and appearance are heightened and while walking around defining the sounds, the participants create their own individual soundscape, their personal mix. Scenes change as inner spaces and memories are discovered.

Homage to a Site, 2005 by Paul Geluso; A newly commissioned site-specific multichannel sound installation; Curated by Berit Fischer. 1 December 2005 – 7 January 2006; Private View Wednesday 30 November, 6-8pm; Open: Wed-Sat, 1-6pm or by appointment

SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH; Tel 020 8525 4330 Bus: 26,48 from Liverpool St,106 & 254 from Bethnal Green, 55 from Old St.; Tube: Bethnal Green Train: Hackney Central Silverlink

RESONANCE 104.4 FM Broadcast: Thursday 1 December, 4.45pm.

ABOUT Paul Geluso

Paul Geluso achieved his Master Degree in Music at the New York University. Since 1999 he has been composing electro-acoustic music and sound scores for j mandle performance, a New York based experimental arts organisation that creates site specific performances in unexpected locations with the intention to heighten the public’s perception of its everyday environment. His electronic music compositions have been presented at major institutions in New York City including The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Cooper- Hewitt School of Design, The Storefront for Art and Architecture and Gale Gates Et Al.

Geluso is a full time lecturer of audio art at New York University and State University of New York at Oneonta. As audio engineer he has worked at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts with artists like Vito Acconci, Marina Rosenfeld, Christian Marclay, Phil Niblock, Stephen Vitiello who use sound in their creative work. He has mastered and mixed award winning films and performed on many albums. Recent awards include the individual artist grant in composition from New York State Council on the Arts, the John E. Robinson Foundation and Meet the Composer.

Homage to a Site will be his first solo show in the UK.

For further information please contact Berit Fischer: :beritf[at]excite.com Tel: 079 3179 3315

Posted by jo at December 1, 2005 12:53 PM

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