Installing ‘Loops and Spools’ - 500 foot long chain of piezos controlled by Arduino - at the San Diego Museum of Art. SDMA: “Casey’s sound piece asks listeners to hear the street as a transformative and layered environment subject to constant change and re-creation. Resembling a long mass of cords and cables on the ground, Loops and Spools uses both piezo transducers and Arduino microcontrollers. The Arduinos are programmed to create patterns of sonic motion in order to draw attention to the listener’s perception of distance and scale while providing new ways to experience architecture.”
Sound Installation in Leucadia. Speakers are placed throughout the stream bed to complement the existing water sounds.
Aug 21
Jun 17
Photos of my recent installation ‘Sun in Aries. Sun in Taurus.’ Solar powered sound installation transforms solar energy into insect sounds through the Arduino micro-controller. Small piezo transducers are connected through a tangled mess of wires that wrap vine-like around a tree. The piezos dangle throughout the tree to give an aural representation of its form.
Microtonal solar oscillators. These small objects have been described as ‘cute’ on numerous occasions. Laser-cut plexiglass form the panels for this current iteration. The knobs on the oscillators control pitch in the range of a whole step as well as the amplitude of this simple sine wave generator. They are perfect for placing in the dappled shade of a tree on a breezy day and exploring new tones created by the interactions of sine waves with microtonal variations.
Jun 17
On Monday, March 16th, at 6:30AM I entered a 36”x36”x41” box that I had constructed from unfinished pine and plexiglas. For 12 hours, I sat in the box. Within the box, I was exposed to high volume white noise. I did not drink; I did not eat; I was unable to move more than a few inches in any direction. For the duration of the performance, a recording of a US Military document that outlined coercion tactics used on enemy combatants detained at military prisons played on a loop via headphones for those who wished to hear. Included among those tactics was white noise exposure.
The US Military document detailing coercion techniques used on captured enemy combatants including white noise exposure. During the white noise exposure installation, listeners would hear the voice from the headphones mixing with the white noise coming out of the box.
Jun 16
Retrospect 22/-37. For your enjoyment: all 7.5 hours of my completed to October 2008 work in one piece. Presented here in two parts.
David Casey is a sound artist and object maker living in Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited at The San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA) SoundWalk (Long Beach, CA), HEARDfest (Los Angeles, CA), The Center for Integrated Media at CalArts (Valencia, CA), and the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock (Los Angeles, CA). He has also designed and installed sound pieces at several private residences in Southern California. His recent collaboration with Japanese artist SASAKI was presented at the 2011 Venice Biennale. He was an artist-in-residence at STEIM (Amsterdam, NL) in October 2009, and has performed at numerous venues across North America. He earned his MFA in Experimental Sound Practices from The California Institute of the Arts in 2010.
