DETAILS FROM THE BOOK OF NOTICE
Sound/text Distributed Installation, Linked Radio Broadcasts of Seaman’s Music - Art in Public Places, Miami (New Music America) 1998
Documentation of Prints - Photo credit: Mark Woods
midnight Dec. 5 - 9 NEW MUSIC NEW RADIO
THIS WORK WAS CO-DEVELOPED WITH THE NEW MUSIC AMERICA FESTIVAL AND
METRO-DADE ART IN PUBLIC PLACES TRUST
Seaman made a series of large format posters to be hung in each of the rapid transit train stations on the metro rail line. Each sign had one statement: Notice the sound of ……… As people would pass by they might see one of the signs. Seaman made samples out of the suggested sounds and then made music from those samples. The signs advertised when radio broadcasts of Seaman’s music would take place. Thus the work explored both event scores (the signs), music, and the listening of the participant in different contexts. One sign contained all of the event scores. Seaman made a spoken word work out of this text presented on the radio as an introduction to the work.
Concepts: event scores, art in public places, non-gallery art, modes of participation/listening, distributed poetics, linked radio broadcasts.
Texts:
NOTICE THE SOUND OF A WATCH ALARM * NOTICE THE SOUND OF RADIOS ACROSS
THE BEACH * NOTICE THE SOUND OF LANGUAGE YOU DO NOT SPEAK * NOTICE THE
SOUND OF SLIDING DOORS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF LIGHTS * NOTICE THE SOUND
OF PNEUMATICS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF BELLS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF A BEAT
THAT IS AS LOUD AS IT CAN BE * NOTICE THE SOUND OF ALARM(S) * NOTICE
THE SOUND OF FANS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF RAIN * NOTICE THE SOUND OF A
SYNTHETIC VOICE * NOTICE THE SOUND OF MUZAK * NOTICE THE SOUND OF
SLANG * NOTICE THE SOUND OF KEYS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF CAR DOOR
BUZZERS AND CHIMES * NOTICE THE SOUND OF STONE FLOORS * NOTICE THE
SOUND OF SPORTS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF AIR CONDITIONERS * NOTICE THE
SOUND OF WINDOWS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF TIRES * NOTICE THE SOUND OF
HEAT * NOTICE THE SOUND OF CICADAS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF TV * NOTICE
THE SOUND OF WHISTLES * NOTICE THE SOUND OF (THE) SERVICES * NOTICE
THE SOUND OF POOLS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF WEAPONS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF
BOATS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF AIRCRAFT * NOTICE THE SOUND OF A
SALAMANDER * NOTICE THE SOUND OF SAND * NOTICE THE SOUND ACROSS THE
WATER * NOTICE THE SOUND OF ICE MACHINES * NOTICE THE SOUND OF DRINKS
AND DRINKING * NOTICE THE SOUND OF ELEVATORS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF
WARNING * NOTICE THE SOUND OF THE IDLE * NOTICE THE SOUND OF BIRDS *
NOTICE THE SOUND OF INSECTS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF SALES * NOTICE THE
SOUND OF CLOCKS AND / OR WATCHES * NOTICE THE SOUND OF THE MILITARY *
NOTICE THE SOUND OF AUTOMATIC TELLERS * NOTICE THE SOUND UNDER
WATER * NOTICE THE SOUND OF TAPS * NOTICE THE SOUND OF
VEHICLES *
FOR DETAILS LISTEN TO WLRN-RADIO 91.3 FM 2 - 3 pm / 11 pm - 12
midnight Dec. 5 - 9 NEW MUSIC NEW RADIO
THIS WORK WAS CO-DEVELOPED WITH THE NEW MUSIC AMERICA FESTIVAL AND
METRO-DADE ART IN PUBLIC PLACES TRUST