September 27, 2010 at 2:24pm
Jessica Robinson, "Demovie," collaboration with Jenny Kroik, five minute audio piece played through hanging speakers, 2009. Photo courtesy the Telephone Room Gallery
CLICKS AND PFFTS IN A TELELPHONE ROOM >>>
In her exhibit Clicks and Pffts opening Saturday inside The Telephone Room, Jessica Robinson folds volumes of found sounds and recordings of bodily noises into aural scapes that "is once technological but very human; familiar yet alien."
We can be thankful that it's a sound installation instead of an odoriferous one considering the tiny size of The Telephone Room.
Wait. It's not an issue. Reading further into the press release we have discovered it's only sounds out of mouths:
There is a thoughtful questioning of language in her current work. Robinson translates unintelligible mouth sounds into what a computer perceives as words. The audience can tell that no language is being spoken, yet a machine that society relies on so heavily grasps furtively at the incoherent babblings, trying desperately to find structure.
In a space like the Telephone Room, a place used for the transmission and reception of sound, it seemed exceedingly relevant to focus on what speech and language are. Constructed through a culture with a need to understand each other, some sounds are laden with meaning while others are just clicks and pffts. Robinson's work dwells in these noises.
We like the sound of that.
Oct. 2-27 by appointment, opening reception Saturday, Oct. 6-9 p.m.
The Telephone Room, 3710 N Seventh St., (Sixth and Union), Tacoma
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