P[ear]ception

Perception defines the way an individual experiences matter. The sound art installation P[ear]ception responds to this notion using sound as a medium for artistic exploration.

Messinezis captures a soundscape – an environmental recording of Mount Carmel, near Haifa, Israel – and places it into a different space, out of its original context. Using this phonographic work as base material, the recorded sound matter shifts through four different points of acoustic perception just like paint over a white canvas. The forest is explored in the same way four different painters would experience and then express life; each one in their own unique way.

P[ear]ception

The installation P[ear]ception was exhibited at the Levendel-Bloch Gallery, Ein Hod Artists village in Israel from the 11th of December to the 18th of December 2009.

Duration: 09:58 loop
Structure: A forest/A surreal painting of a forest/A mosaic of a forest/A dream of a forest.

Pearception (mp3)

Wunderkammer: The Sound Cabinet of Curiosities

Wunderkammer; The Sound Cabinet of Curiosities was a sound art installation aiming to stimulate the imagination and challenge the perception of the individual that would experience it. It Drew inspiration from the historical cabinets of curiosities that first appeared during the 14th Century around Europe and are considered to have been the first form of the modern museum

The installation was a collection of strange, unearthly, wondrous and fascinating sound objects. The artist adopted the the role of a curator or a collector and turned himself into an audio alchemist, who while searching for his philosopher stone, stumbled across numerous objects, gathered them and exhibited them in order to share his findings with the audience.

The concept was realized using the Choroechoic compositional strategy. This form of composition, introduced here by the artist, uses as starting materials concrete sonorous objects that acquire the attributes of physical ones. After having their temporal characteristics eliminated, these sound objects are defined by the artist as Choroechons.The Sound Cabinet of Curiosities is the first Choroechoic piece; a composition through which the terms ‘Structuring materials’ reclaims its literal meaning.

Wunderkammer: the Sound Cabinet of Curiosities was exhibited  the 27th of November 2008 at the IMT Gallery, London as part of the Sound Art exhibition and symposium “Audio Forensics”.

For more information on the exhibition please visit: imagemusictext.com

For information about Choroechoic composition feel free to contact the artist.