[Microsound-announce] Jean-Pierre Gauthier's sound sculptures at Akron Art Museum

[Jeremy Bible]

Not sure how this landed in my home region of Akron, Ohio but I am
very glad it did.  First time seeing his work in person and it was
fantastic. Apparently its the US exclusive appearance of his work.
http://akronartmuseum.org/exhibitions/details.php?unid=721

Montréal artist, inventor and musician Jean-Pierre Gauthier brings
humor and poetry to his kinetic sculptural installations. This
exhibition, the first survey of the award-winning artist's work, will
make its exclusive U.S. appearance at the Akron Art Museum.

Gauthier ingeniously transforms electrical cable, funnels, pulleys and
other industrial and everyday objects into living, moving, singing
organisms. His dynamic installations invoke the opposing forces of
order and chaos, permanence and fragility. Each work invites the
viewer to experience and interact with its visual, sound, and moving
parts.

Among the works featured in the exhibition is Beats and Butterflies, a
spectacular glistening piano that plays when viewers move through the
room. Gauthier in fact views all of his materials as instruments. In
Rut, motors, wires, microphones, mixing boards and amplifiers are set
in motion to create mesmerizing rhythmic and auditory movements. The
seemingly jumbled network of conduits is in fact a highly orchestrated
mechanism that creates a multi-sensory experience of space and time.

Born in 1965 in Matane (Quebec Province), Gauthier has lived and
worked in Montréal since 1986. Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play
is comprised of artwork made from 2002 to the present.

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