Pulse Field, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2003


W. Jude LeBlanc, exhition design, Cathy Byrd, curator, Craig Dongoski, Douglas Kahn, Ouie Dire Production, Adam Overton, Robert Thompson

Pulse Field, an exhibition that draws energy from the music and art schools of Georgia State University, explored contemporary and historic forms of sound art. The title describes the terrain and the process of exploration tied to the exploration of this inventive art form. In the School of Art & Design Galleries, a spectrum of works by international artists were featured in two sound art environments, a surround soundscape and an archive intended as a center to inform and educate the audience. Concurrent with the GSU show, the nonprofit artspace Eyedrum Music and Art Gallery presented L’Objet Sonore, an interactive display of sound art objects.

The heart of this project was a the three-week residency of a French sound art collective. The group Ouïe Dire was selected to produce a sound art postcard of Atlanta, assisted by GSU students. In this effort, two cultural and artistic geographies (France and Georgia) intersected in the creation of a site-specific CD aimed at defining the city of Atlanta through sound.

A CD-ROM catalogue will be produced to document Pulse Field. Douglas Kahn, MIT Press author of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts and Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant Garde will collaborate in curating the archive. Kahn wrote the centerpiece catalogue essay and lecture for the exhibition.

Pulse Field contributed to both the exposure and documentation of sound art. It approached the genre from both scientific and creative angles, featuring work that ranges from free-form to refined, from purely abstract to more musical compositions. An environmental and experiential show, Pulse Field promotes the potential for future experimentation and innovation.

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