Here's the official Armory promo:
http://www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/ann_hamilton
a blog review:
http://hyperallergic.com/61982/a-playground-for-the-soul-lost-in-ann-hamiltons-world/
"The final component happens at the end of each day. A vocalist sings from the balcony, serenading the visitors (as well as the pigeons). Each day’s song is cut with a record lathe, positioned at the far end of the hall. The resulting recording is played back the next morning."
Has anyone seen this? Is someone who contributes here involved in this? (What lathe was used?
)Her description here:
http://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/images/projects/armory/Ann_statement_final.pdf
As the field of swings is bracketed by reading and writing, the interval of the day is bracketed by live song and its
recording. The maximum angle of a pendulum swinging away from its vertical point is called its amplitude. Amplitude
also refers to sound waves in air; sound is the second “cloth” of the work. At day’s end, a vocalist on the Juliet
balcony serenades the pigeons when released to flight. The plainsong, cut live to vinyl lathe—from center to outside
edge, a motion repeated when played each morning after—returns the recent past to the current moment. A different
singer on each successive day accretes, in turn, an additional record, and in time, a “chorus.” Song enchants the civic,
and the community of voices are archived by mechanisms and artifacts that have pragmatically and symbolically
served as connection points for communications technologies. The simple interlacing of human song and animal
song—the cooing of the pigeons and the singer’s vocalizations—perhaps remembers that at one time, animals lived in
the imagination as messengers, sometimes with oracular or sacrificial functions.
This one seems to tell us the lathe-er:
http://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/images/projects/armory/Acknow_armory_final.pdf
I've heard the show is great! It's up through Jan 6, 2013.
