June 19, 2004 – July 24, 2004

free103point9 Gallery
97 S. 6th St., Second Floor
Brooklyn, NY
United States

A Seasonal show. New work in collaboration from Ian Nagoski and Madeleine Gallagher. The Sound and Video Installation "Shell Home Elk Bee" consists of intense slow changing drone music played through a 5.1 speaker array around the viewer seated in front of a large video projection. The image on the screen is a 24-hour time-condensed single shot of the Cape Cod Bay, shot from the perspective of the town of Truro, Massachusetts, facing Provincetown. The video begins before sunrise and proceeds through the day into the night, which features the two lighthouses on the northern point of the cape, Long Point Light and Race Point. The final transition from night to daybreak features abstract images created with the Rutt Etra Synthesizer. The installation is described as " incredibly intense and equally meditative and relaxing, the music vibrates the body slightly and the video has a soothing effect." The structure of the installation is a result of a live sound and video performance by Ian Nagoski and Madeleine Gallagher on June 19th which took place at free103point9 Gallery. This is the first collaboration between both artists. The sound created by Ian Nagoski was created with equal parts digital feedback (tworeverb chips in the circuit) and Wild Wave, a vibrating-metal-plate instrument invented by Daniel Conrad. Madeleine Gallagher used the Rutt-Etra video synthesizer to created the raster images for the night images. Co-invented by Steve Rutt and Bill Etra, the Rutt Etra is an analog computer for video raster manipulation through a Scan Modulation/Rescan process and electronic deflection modulation.This footage was created by manipulating the electronic waveforms (curves, ramps, sines, triangles) and through the imput and processing of Ian Nagoski's audio frequency wave patterns. Tune in Saturdays at 8 p.m. EDT on free103point9 Online Radio at www.free103point9.org for a program of recordings from Ian Nagoski's sound portion of the installation.