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Sarnia, ON – Discover creative ways to recycle those old things, household things and even electronic things in the Sound Jam workshop with artist Michael Waterman at Gallery Lambton. This free workshop will be held on Wednesday, December 2 at 7:00 p.m. Sound Jam coincides with the exhibition Interplay: Art, Technology, Man which includes work by Jeremy Bailey, Reva Stone and Michael Waterman and is open until January 23, 2010 at Gallery Lambton.
Sound artist Michael Waterman will be facilitating an evening of instrument building using discarded objects and technologies. Participants will learn about Waterman's artistic practice in sound, while creating instruments and sharing insights. Providing a glimpse into the possibilities of scavenged technologies and their applications to sound art, this work shop will end with a jam sound session and recording event, where the group will use their instruments in interaction with each other. Bring along your own instrumental creations and any object that has the capacity to reverberate and join in.
Waterman will give a formal talk about his artistic practice on Thursday, December 3 at 7:00 p.m.
Michael Waterman is a visual and audio artist whose work focuses on sound installation, improvisational performance, and radio art. He studied at the University of Manitoba and at the University of Guelph.
Waterman's sound installations have been presented in galleries and festivals throughout Canada and in the United States. His installations have been featured at the Guelph Jazz Festival, Sound Symposium in St. John's and at both CAFKA and Open Ears Festivals in Kitchener.
Waterman is a founding member of the audio collage ensemble Männlicher Carcano which recently celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Männlicher Carcano has an extensive performance history including performances at The Museum of Jurassic Technology; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Send and Receive Festival, Winnipeg; Deep Wireless Festival, Toronto; Sound Symposium, St. John's and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), San Diego.
In 1997, Waterman created the Männlicher Carcano Radio Hour at Trent Radio, Peterborough where he was artist-in-residence. Now in its twelfth year and simulcast weekly on CFRU in Guelph and on Trent Radio, the show links participants from Los Angeles, Berkeley, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Guelph and Peterborough via tele-conferencing and web streaming to perform live weekly audio improvisations. Information about Männlicher Carcano and podcasts of recent shows can be found at: http://mannlichercarcano.blogspot.com
Waterman’s Robochorus is currently installed at Gallery Lambton as part of the exhibition Interplay: Art, Technology, Man. Robochorus is a series of eight human-scaled robot-like figures that stand ready throughout the gallery. These "robomorphic" figures have been constructed from a trans-decade assemblage of stereo components including tube amps, transistor amps, and bits of microchip-circuited audio equipment from the 80s and 90s.
Interplay: Art, Technology, Man includes work by Jeremy Bailey, Reva Stone and Michael Waterman and is open until January 23, 2010 at Gallery Lambton.
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Contact:
Holly Rutherford
Gallery Assistant Community Relations
Gallery Lambton
Telephone: 519 336-8127
email: holly.rutherford@county-lambton.on.ca
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