Jake Moore

Jake Moore
Phonism (2018)
Installation, speakers, stands, black fabric, audio and power cables,
computer, audio interface, generative audio, dimensions variable.

Voice is a sound heard, not uttered – but what is the least information
necessary to evoke Voice in the listener?

When animals are killed or die they cross-over from object to substance; from body to meat and bones. The word animal finds its root in the Latin animalis "animate, living; of the air," from anima "breath, soul; a current of air." Speakers also breathe, literally inhaling and exhaling to excite a space, to give it life. But all sound, like life, is temporal; subject to entropy and decay.

The moral question of whether we have the right to raise the dead sounds ‘horror-ble’ or fantastical at first, but the question is closely bound to whether we have the right to take that life in the first place. Both a form of playing (with) god. While the dead animal can not generate it’s own breath, it can still resound.

Granular synthesis pulverises, dissects, dismembers, and minces sound. But granulation also prolongs what would normally be transient phenomena - sounds that live and die - and sustains them indefinitely; breathing life back into them. It holds the window between life and death open, indefinitely.

Jake is a conceptual artist based in Melbourne, Australia.They have worked on a number of short films and music videos, presented talks on subjects such as Noise, Rhythm, and Entropy, and contributed work to various group exhibitions and online publications. Their practice engages with both qualitative and quantitative methods in an effort to collapse the clear distinctions perceived between various subjects and objects.

Working with drawing and panting, process and instructional work, programming, sculpture, composition and sound design, installation, robotics, video and animation; Jake’s goal is ultimately to raise questions that encourage conversation between different disciplines allowing the formation of new ways of understanding and engaging with the world.

http://jake-moore.net/work.html

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