[microsound-announce] [exhibition] Recreating the Domain + Austin + 041709

[Alex Keller]

The Church of the Friendly Ghost, with curator Alex Keller, would like to
announce the media art exhibition Recreating the Domain, opening April 17,
2009. 
 
Recreating the Domain is a set of artist-created recorded walking tours of
the Domain, the controversial north Austin shopping center/residence/office
park.  Rather than having a traditional gallery presence, visitors will be
able to download the walking tours from <http://www.recreatingthedomain.org>
and attend the show on their own time, making Recreating the Domain a
permanent exhibition.

The artists are

Bill Bridges, with a piece that deals with corporate speech and
(mis)translation. 
<http://www.myspace.com/billbridges>
Brent Fariss, with a piece designed to challenge the listener to
re-contextualize his environment through increasingly challenging
instructions. 
<http://www.myspace.com/brentfariss>
Christopher Petkus, with an audio tour that maps the steady psychological
disintegration of the tour guide.
<http://web.me.com/johnnymeatworth>
James Patrick Robinson, with a sound collage of life and work in the Domain
that dissects where corporate culture meets our daily lives.
<http://www.vimeo.com/user579041/videos>
Vanessa Rossetto, with an audible analysis of the historical use of the land
currently known as the Domain.
<http://pervertedlogic.com/niwi>

Curator Alex Keller: ³Walking around the Domain brings up so many
fascinating questions, it¹s difficult to imagine answering them all.
* What would it be like to live in a neighborhood with music piped in on the
sidewalks? 
* Are neighborhoods always the product of terraforming?
* What would happen if the Domain became a walled city?
* What will the Domain look like if the Great Depression mark 2 happens?
* What would the Domain look like if it were invaded by zombies?
* Are there underground tunnels for cast members like in Disneyworld?
* Could I afford to live there if I worked in a store there?²

³The artists have made some incredible pieces that provide a bit more
insight into the Domain and what makes it tick. I can¹t wait to see sound
art aficionados waltzing around the Domain with headphones on, mixing with
the crowd of shoppers with headphones on. Will there be a clear division
between the listeners and the shoppers? Are they already the same group?
Will the listeners be drawn in to the Domain¹s type of new urban lifestyle?²

Recreating the Domain will open on April 17, 2009, at which point the audio
tours will be downloadable from <http://www.recreatingthedomain.org>.

The show is the subject of a presentation in the Church of the Friendly
Ghost's Modern Aural Sculpture Symposium South, a two day event exploring
modern creative music in Texas and other southern states, Mexico, and the
rest of the world including guest speakers and performers from other places
in the states and abroad. Recreating the Domain¹s presentation will occur on
Saturday, April 25 at 12:00 PM at the Acton School of Business in
Austin.<http://www.churchofthefriendlyghost.org/archives/200>

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ABOUT THE CHURCH OF THE FRIENDLY GHOST

Church of the Friendly Ghost is a growing community organization dedicated
to the proliferation of creative musics, future-minded expressions,
experiments in sound, and cutting edge jazz.

While we place an emphasis on home-grown music (Austin, Texas) we also
connect the local audience with new performers and composers and serve as a
hub for the creative music community in Austin.

Church of the Friendly Ghost serves as a laboratory for creative musicians
outside the the limits of institution and industry, as well as a gathering
place for the culturally adventurous in Austin, accessible as a social,
practical, and artistic network.

By providing an alternative to traditional bars and venues, a logistical and
promotional network, and serving as a forum for artistic discourse,
C.O.T.F.G. nurtures and enables a more diverse range of creative musics, and
curates an ongoing series of exciting and thought-provoking musical
performances that take place at Salvage Vanguard Theater.

These performances accessible to the public, inclusive to the community as a
whole, and always offered at an affordable admission.

Church Of The Friendly Ghost seeks to raise the profile of creative music in
Austin and Texas worldwide.

We at Church of the Friendly Ghost believe that Art is a right and a public
resource. Thanks for your support and interest!

We are a 100% volunteer-run community organization with support from Salvage
Vanguard Theater
and the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin.

<http://churchofthefriendlyghost.org>
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ABOUT ALEX KELLER

Alex Keller is an audio artist, sound designer, curator and teacher based in
Austin, Texas. His work is in the media of performance, installation, and CD
release, and reflects his interests in architecture, language, abstraction
and music. He is an active audio production professional, has taught classes
in media production at Shoreline College and the Art Institute of Seattle,
and has won awards for his creative work from the City of Seattle, Puget
Sound Transit, and Jack Straw Productions.

Alex is a founding member of the Mimeograph Collective and the Sonicabal, an
active member of the Austin New Music Co-op, and is a volunteer/ programmer
on Austin's KOOP Radio, co-hosting Commercial Suicide, central Texas¹
longest-running radio show featuring experimental sound works.

<http://alexkeller.net>