SPECTRUM is a light art exhibition by Colin Bowring, an emerging artist-scientist out of San Francisco. Known as the Wizard of Bartlett Street to his West Coast following, Bowring is making a name for himself with improvised optical experiments and light projections. SPECTRUM is his first foray into the Brooklyn art scene and he has come to Gowanus Ballroom to lay siege to the city and create guerrilla-style. Starting from scratch and working with whatever he finds, Bowring repurposes, barters, and liberates metal, mirrors, and glass to evolve his inventions of light Serett Sessions, a sound montage created by William Tucci in collaboration with the metal fabricators of Serett Metalworks. The composition is derived from an ongoing series of field recordings that reconstitute the cacophonic aural activities of Serett at work. A reimagined soundscape, Serett Sessions takes tactile sounds of industrial productivity and recontextualizes these resonant properties of manufacturing into a futuristic sound environment reminiscent of early electronic sound synthesis pioneered by Luigi Russolo, Leon Theremin and Robert Moog.
