Desperate Attempts at Beauty

Desperate Attempts at Beauty

Production country: 
us
Year: 
2003, Auscultare Research
Duration: 
58'
Edition: 
2005
Format: 
installation
sound

Joe Colley's sound composition reconciles two extremely different fields: he samples pure organic phenomena and abstract electronic sound. For the artist, the uneasy coexistence of cracking melting ice and the vibration of electronic devices symbolises the schizophrenia that is crucial to the survival of the modem individual.

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