For the 2008 edition of the Soundwalk festival of art and sound, Julia Holter composed a new work which crossed the roles of performer, artist, composer and art object in a unique kind of living sculpture. Posing herself as the mysterious agent of a ritual of measurement, Holter created a live engagement in a scene typically populated by interactive software and machines.

Following a series of simple instructions (which in this case double as both interaction design and score), she greets visitors with a series of tones and proclamations as they weigh sand borrowed from the nearby shores of Long Beach. As each new visitor adds sand to the basket of a hanging scale, the needle points out a higher number, and Holter, attentive to the scales’ progress, chimes a carefully selected tone on harmonium and bell. Each tone serves as accompaniment for her declaration of the increasing weight.

Over the course of a day-long performance, Holter has marked, in speech, the participation of nearly a hundred visitors and as many pounds of the sand that has flowed through.

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SoundWalk is an interactive showcase for sound-based sculptures, installations, and performances by international and local artists. The event takes place at several locations in Downtown Long Beach.

Other Soundwalk Participants:
Aaron Drake
Jeff Rau
Robert Adam Malin
c.t. Anderson
Megan Mazdoeff
Joe Newlin
Robert Martin, & John M. Kennedy
Eric Lindley, Dave Mickey, He Yin, Dan Rae Wilson & Carlo Vogele
Joe Tepperman
UEM
G. Douglass Barrett
Small Drone Orchestra
Reduced Listening Ensemble
Yann Noval
Super Minerals
Karen Crew & Carl Off
Robot repair Projects
John P Hastings
Eric Strauss
john kannenberg
Vincent Oliveri
Clay Chaplin
Jose Juarez & Divine Brick Research Projects
Stuart Sperling
Andrew Johnson
D. Jean Hester
Sander Roscoe Wolff & Matthew O’Donnell
Adam Fong
j.frede
Madelyn Byrne, Randy Hoffman & Ellen weller
Lewis Keller & Phillip Stearns
Joe Cantrell
The Hop-Frog Kollectiv & Friends
Francene Kaplan
Carlin Wing
Metal Rouge
MLuM
Betsy Lohrer hall
Bekkah Walker
phog masheen
SUBLAMP
1st & Linden
Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemkoe
S.S. “SEATBELT” McLean
amy ling huynh
Phil Curtis
InLimen
Object Control
FLOOD
Double Blind
Julia Holter
Mark Trayle
The Carolyn Duo
Ori Barel

http://soundwalk.org/

Soundwalk is presented by FLOOD.