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Adam Basanta

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adam basanta -- the sound of empty space

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Jason Sharp with Adam Basanta - Stand Above The Streams Pt. 2

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Adam Basanta, 90.42%_match: Franco DeFrancesca "Fibranomic", 2017

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All We’d Ever Need Is One Another

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Sonic Art Series Presents: Adam Basanta, “A Line Listening to Itself,” March 9-28, 2018

ADAM BASANTA Adam Basantais a Montreal-based sound artist. Across disciplines and media, he interrogates intersections between conceptual and sensorial dimensions of listening, and the intertwining of human behaviour and mass-produced consumer devices. He has exhibited at Carroll/Fletcher Gallery (UK), National Art Centre Tokyo (JPN), American Medium Gallery (NYC), Moscow Biennale for Young Art (RUS), and The Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe (USA). “A Line Listening to Itself” Sound sculpture. 2016. 8' x 3' x 5'. Microphone, boom stand, 7 reclaimed speaker cones, cables, electronics. A single microphone tilted at a slight angle points downwards towards an extended line of reclaimed speaker cones. Using computer-controlled feedback networks, the microphone listens to its own amplification through each speaker, generating a 7 note feedback chord. Each tone in the chord emerges from a single speaker, undulating individually and collectively as the computer software adjusts itself to the changing acoustic environment. Starting from silence, each chord begins slowly, building one note at a time until the full chord rings out; following, each note begins to fade, leading back to silence. This sonic ebb and flow takes place over 4-6 minutes, functioning as a slow breathing rhythm on a scale dwarfing human breath. As one chord ends, it gives rise to a new chord, leading to an ever-changing harmonic cycle. 

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Variations on a Theme

Adam Basanta

FOFA Gallery Montreal

April 8 – May 19

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Adam Basantaʼs Variations on a theme presents a collection of sound installations and mixed media sculptures. In each artwork, consumer sound reproduction technologies—microphones, speakers, amplifiers, headphones—are subject to a series of transformations. These minimalist choreographies take a variety of highly sculptural forms—superimposed acoustic enclosures, a curtain constructed of hundreds of earbud headphones, a surgically divided PA system—employing a utilitarian aesthetic in their absurd transfigurations. The works play on the physical expectations of sound making, highlighting both the subtle ornamentation of unexpected sound and the resonant weight of silence. Through the redirection of both form and function, objects become part of a larger thematic vocabulary which invites us to examine both the objects themselves and our relationship to them in unconventional ways. As visitors engage with each work as well as the shared sonic spaces in-between, they can attend to the shifts in their own listening.

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‘Variations on a Theme’ Adam Basanta at FOFA Gallery Montreal Variations on a Theme Adam Basanta FOFA Gallery Montreal April 8 - May 19 Adam Basanta…