JONNY FARROW
composer, sound
artist
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Bio
Jonny Farrow is a Brooklyn-based sound-artist, composer and performer of new sound works, is co-chair of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, and has an M.A. in musicology. His compositions make use of instruments, field recordings and other prepared sounds. His artistic practice often centers on a concept that is explored through the recording of very specific, sometimes isolated sounds. Other times, recording itself is the critical subject for which sound objects are arranged and manipulated. In performance, he often utilizes the small sounds of objects, transforming those sounds into new, evocative soundscapes.
Works For Fixed Media
NYC Marathon.
NYC DOT paving the way (late-night) for the runners. 3 minutes, 53
seconds. 2006.
Thunderstorm Contact. A study
for a homemade contact mic and a giant summer thunderstorm.
16 minutes. 2006.
Deep Cleaning. A close
study of household noise with a stereo mic and a contact mic. 7 minutes, 15
seconds. 2006
The Smell of a Glacier. A
cold North wind captured blowing through my apartment in February 2004. 5
minutes, 30 seconds. 2006.
SSSeaport/Peking Squeak. A
soundwalk at South Street Seaport in
Zion
Water.
The close study of an ordinary stream in Zion National Park
, Utah. 11 minutes,17 seconds. 2006.
Everyday
Radiation. Electromagnetic radiation from common household electronics captured thru a
guitar pickup. 10 minutes, 15 seconds. 2006.
There are no recordings of dinosaurs…Birds
and cats meet in a collage about Acoustic Ecology. 5 minutes, 30 seconds. 2006.
Gift of Tongues. Collage
composed of personal recordings made in NYC and
Works for Instruments
Black Hole. Serial
composition for a collapsing universe. Scored
for performance. 3 minutes. 2006
Sketches of a
Suite for Broken
Works for Video
B61 and B61 Night. Two ambient videos made for collaboration with
performance artist Andrea Callard exploring psychogeography of an MTA bus route
in
Filmstrip. Score for
experimental video in collaboration with poet/visual artist
Recent Performances/Presentations
Giant Ear))) on www.free103point9.org . Host show interviewing San Francisco-based sound artist and educator Loren Chasse. Show webcast on November 4, 2007.
Tune (Out)))side 2007. Collaborative performance/improvisation with Andrea WIlliams and Edmund Mooney. Soundings/manipulations of small items inside the confines of an 18" x 12" x 12" box. free103point9.org's Wave Farm, Greene County, NY. July 2007. Documentation.
Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner @ Judson Church. Improvisational Performance with Edmund Mooney. Improvising on the insides of a piano, the outsides of a guitar and other prepared/manipulated sound sources. NYC 2007. Video.
Small Press Traffic reading series. Collaborative performance with poet Jill Magi mixing prepared soundscapes accompanying poetry. San Francisco, CA, 2007.
Neither/Nor
Redux. Night of performances
commemorating pad-locking by city of mid-80’s
Small Press
Book Launch @ KGB Bar. Cy Press and
Yo-Yo Labs book launch event at iconic
literary venue in
Radio Fest
2006 -- Microradio
Soundwalk at www.free103point9.org's
Wave Farm. Performed three-hour sound collage with prepared sources.
All battery-powered, performed outdoors at the base of a large tree at
highest point on Wave Farm property. Collage
micro-broadcast to participants roaming the property with FM receivers and
headphones. Greene Co., NY. 2006.
Conflux
Festival. B61 video presented at
Ear
to the Earth Festival. Co-hosted with EMF
opening night performances at 3LD in
Home. Sound Compositions. Devil. Contact. Links.