BoxoProjects will hold an open house Saturday for two artists-in-residence. Managing editor Tami Roleff says the artists use music and sound in their work…
Two artists with backgrounds in music and anthropology will be featured at an open house Saturday at BoxoProjects in Joshua Tree. Caroline Partamian and Ethan Primason worked on a month-long analysis of three sonic moments recorded in three different abandoned mines in Joshua Tree National Park. On a particularly windy day in February, the artists recorded the wind as it filled, passed through and revealed the architecture of three long abandoned man made caverns.
One short audio recording from each mine was then meticulously dissected, analyzed, and reconstructed into a multi-channel immersive audio environment to reveal the complexities, relationships and layered acoustic properties that make up a brief sonic moment.
Through their multisensory analysis of these moments, they built a series of speakers, fans, resonating metallic sheets, and visual representations of the physical waveforms. This is a work created through the process of constant reinterpretation – an attempt to intentionally witness, reflect, breakdown and rebuild the sonic character of place.
The open house featuring their work is set for Saturday, February 29, from 2 to 5 p.m. BoxoProjects is located at 62732 Sullivan Road in Joshua Tree.
