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This page is dedicated to artist s which
Stephen collaborated with and their projects that achieved special
recognition in the art and music communities.
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Doug Fogelson, Chicago - Project: Cush
Installed in the Kraft / Lieberman Gallery - Chicago Sept 8 2006 - Oct
31, 2006
Videography: Doug Fogelson / Editor: Kim Alpert / Sound
Designer: Stephen Shirk
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Doug Fogelson’s
large color photographs concentrate on the subject of ocean waves and
the element of time. Fogelson’s wave scenes are composed of
multiple exposures overlapping inside the camera- reproducing the
action of ocean waves on film. Both video and sound replicate waves as
primary imagery as well, using manipulations of time and multiplicity
to bring a simulacrum of the ocean shore inside the gallery walls.
Sculptural works include a ‘Baywatch’ style lifeguard stand
and a large cast resin wave on a wheeled pedestal. Collaborating with
Doug on the "Cush" sound design was a great experience. It brought me
great pleasure to bring his aural interpretation of ocean waves to the
gallery patrons' ears. Say "Cush" real slow.....
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Nadine Robinson, British, NYC - Project: Alles Grau en Grau Mallen
Installed: Grand Arts - Kansas City, MO 2005 / Studio Museum of Harlem
- NYC 2006
Sound Design/Music Editor/Composer:
Stephen Shirk
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Grau'' -- the full German title translates as ''painting everything
gray'' -- expands her political purview from imperialism to Armageddon.
Hundreds of speakers embedded in an 11-foot-tall gray-black wall unit
generate a sampling of satanic scores from films (''The Omen,'' ''The
Matrix''), mixed with Roman Catholic funeral chants and Rastafarian
dance music. (Ms. Robinson was born in Jamaica.) It's powerful, this
millennarian maximalism -- Gerhard Richter and HAL from ''2001: A Space
Odyssey'' meet the Rapture -- and it's right on time. |
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Creating the soundtrack for Alles Grau
was a trip...sampling sections of film soundtracks then manipulating
them to work together with classic reggae beats and chants...pitching
and moving things around to use them in ways they were never intended
to be. Nadine really wanted to "dub" the mix out, recalling the sounds
of her youth in Jamaica's dance halls. I've never had more fun playing
the analog delay!
click here to listen to
the "Alles Grau" (Doom Dub) Mix
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Nadine
Robinson, British, NYC - Project: Tower
Hollars 2002
Commissioned by Museum of Modern Art, NY Installed in the MOMA Tempo
Exhibit 2002
Sound Designer/Music Editor: Stephen
Shirk
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This project was something that
had to be seen in person to be fully appreciated. Nearly forty feet
wide and thirteen feet tall, utilizing over 450 speakers in various
sizes and twelve turntables playing the same track, repeating at
random. Tower Hollers was a random sonic experience. The blur of the
slightly out of sync turntables created a haunting effect that further
accentuated the music. By listening to the track Stephen created,
you'll get an idea of what Nadine was trying to say. Old
African-American work songs (originally recorded by Alan Lomax) were
manipulated so that they could melodically weave in and out of the
Melanchrino Strings "Music for Dining". The two types of music were
selected to create a juxtaposition, commenting on the civil rights
struggles of the 1960's.
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