Ken Ueno
Liquid Lucretius.
The music of Ken Ueno contributes to the history of two avant-gardes with shared interests, which took technology as an important tool that, toward the second half of the twentieth century, allowed for the inclusion of almost any sound.
The first of these is the path that inaugurated the possibility of editing tape recordings of the sounds of objects found in the sphere of the everyday until a composition had been obtained, or their later inclusion in arrangements with acoustic musical instruments. This path in the creation of sounds would have a less flexible facet, also developed in Europe, which rejected using any sound caused by real objects as its raw material and instead opted to use only electronically created sounds. The second was the U.S. avant-garde, and especially John Cage, who contributed significantly to the incorporation of any sound into music, even those that emanated from silence.
Ken Ueno's Liquid Lucretius, presented at the museum, makes reference to the conception of the universe expressed by Lucretius in De rerum natura, where it is represented as a set of atoms floating in space. This image is complemented by the word liquid, which evokes the whirlpools caused by oceanic currents.
Inspired by a set of natural experiences, the artist has completed a sound installation that investigates the boundaries between natural phenomena and granular synthesis, as well as between complex natural sound phenomena and vocal phonemes. He has programmed some operations and routines in the computer program Max/MSP, which, for the duration of the installation, will unfold a sound texture in variable forms subject to continuous evolution.
These operations include ambisonic movements from an agglomeration of sounds founded in sets of algorithms that take their inspiration from the forms and movements characteristic of flocks of birds in flight.
Artist: Ken Ueno (Estados Unidos, 1970)
Curator: Marco Morales
Multi-channel sound installation (2013)
Publicación
Publication
Ken Ueno
Authors : Marco Morales Villalobos
Language : Spanish & English
Editor: MUAC-UNAM
Price: $85
