Seth Kim-Cohen [Non-Cochlear Sound]
Saturdays in October, 2 - 8 PM
Opening: Friday 1 October 7 - 10 PM
Diapason Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Blogalogue: http://noncochlearsound.com/

Sound, like everything else (maybe more than everything else), is a product of interaction: stick with skin, wheel with street, wind with grass. Logically, then, sound is also a product of the situations in which these interactions occur. Non-Cochlear Sound addresses sound as a conceptual, contextual construct. Non-Cochlear Sound might function in a sound-like fashion without specifically referencing or making sound, it might use sound as a vehicle for transporting ideas or materials from point A to point B, it might even make sound but only as an excuse for initiating other activities. Sound always makes meaning by interacting with other things in proximity: geographic proximity, ideological proximity, philosophical proximity. Non-Cochlear Sound is nothing more - and nothing less - than the acknowledgement of this reality.

Diapason Gallery for Sound presents Non-Cochlear Sound, an exhibition curated by Seth Kim-Cohen. The exhibition follows from Kim-Cohen’s book, In The Blink Of An Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Continuum 2009), which theorizes a phylum of sonic practice imagined as a continuation of and a complement to Marcel Duchamp's notion of a non-retinal visual art. The opening on October 1 at 7pm will include one-time-only performances which will then be documented for the remainder of the exhibition. Non-Cochlear Sound continues Saturdays in October from 2pm-8pm and features the work of twenty established and emerging artists working with sound as a medium which addresses ideas beyond the act of hearing. Through performance, video, text and sound, the artists examine sonic conceptualism and the mediating/mediated properties of sound.

Artists, in alphabetical order, and their works:

Doug Barrett, Violin Tuned D.E.E.D.
Rozalinda Borcilla, Listening for Beginners
Seth Cluett, Tracing Moving Circles (Neighborhood Memory)
Chris Cuellar, Tactical Archiving
Benedict Drew, Drum Loop
Jarrod Fowler, Rhythmsystemics
Seth Kim-Cohen, Critique of Instrumental Reason (by use of drums)
Chris Kubick, To Make The Sound of Fire
Lou Mallozzi, Screenplay: one and one
Christof Migone, 4 Feet and 33 Inches
Matthew Mullane, Détourned Down: A Conversation with Seth Kim-Cohen
Rob Mullender, Said Object / Daughter’s Voice From Memory
Michalis Pichler, Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hazard (Musique)
Michelle Rosenberg, Round Robin
Jennifer Schmidt, Hard Times / Scrabble Value: A Conversation in 2 Parts
Benjamin Thorp, Black Box
Heather and Seth Warren-Crow, Grayface
JLIAT, Esse Est Percipi?