Mobile Devices.

This is a document of a piece called Mobile Devices performed by students in my “Art, Sound, Noise” course at Guilford College. Students chose a sound and created a visual analog of it as a portable sculpture. The sculptures contained Bluetooth speakers looping their sound. Performers mingled randomly around Lewis and Elm Streets in downtown Greensboro, NC letting their sounds and sculptures interact informally with each other and with the environment. Commanded by text messages from an on-site conductor, performers temporarily coalesced at specified points. In these formations their sounds and sculptures combined in momentary compositions.

This performance was part of Art in Odd Places - “Number”, a public exhibition organized by Art in Odd Places and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art. The performance was written by me. The sounds and sculptures were created by students. Raina Martens was the conductor. The project was funded in part by a grant from the Center for Principled Problem Solving at Guilford College. The video is by Jonathan Butler.