Presenting sound art in a gallery setting is a unique challenge for any curator or designer. Variform, the long since closed art space run by acclaimed musician Patricia Wolf and her husband, was successful on that front by keeping visual distractions to a minimum—all the better to concentrate on the field recordings or drones pouring out of speakers placed around the room. Other spaces tend to pair the art with video or other works as.
Due to the nature of my profession—as the Mercury's arts & culture editor—I can't help but see Portland's amazing side. For instance, I was standing in line at a film festival the first time I heard about a series of "glam shot" portrait pop-up in the Lloyd Center Mall. This led to our Spring Arts cover, "Big City Times," from Robbie Augsberger's December residency at ILYToo—the latest in a series of retail residencies created by.
Xenia Benivolski speaks to the Navajo noise musician, composer and sound artist about his most recent projects and winning the Pulitzer Prize For Music