Popular Culture's a Bitch (4.38 MB)
Raindrops (4.95 MB)
Took the Earth (6.20 MB)
A Little Touch of Pink (5.20 MB)

In 2004 I surreptitiously made over 20 hours of field recordings at the Whitney Biennial. I concentrated on the public tours they offer but also included sounds of the museum as work place, conversations between museum visitors, and my daily ride to and from the museum. I then sampled these recordings; adding beats and including the "sound granules," clicks and pops that were the by-product of my recording process, to create pieces of glitchtronica. I then sampled these songs and created downloadable cell phone ringtones.

Through The Sense of Another Dimension I explore the idea of "authorized speech" and how seemingly impartial words are used to uphold certain values in art. In these MP3's I mix the art institution's voice in on itself, re-ordering the docents' speech so they themselves appear to be critical of the museum, speak about uncertainty and chaos, speak of culture's fear of nature, and in some cases talk about particular works at the Biennial in a way that I believe describes them more accurately then their scripted interpretations (listen for descriptions of work by Sue Debeer, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Matthew Ronay, Zak Smith, Rob Fische, and Maurizio Cattelan among others).

By including the sound detritus, the clicks, pops, and street noise, I mix the cultural institution back into the everyday in order to create a conversation between authorized and unauthorized speech, between inside and outside the institution. I then strengthen this conversation between the sanctioned and unsanctioned voice by offering these pop songs as ubiquitous cell phone ringtones; turning the cell phone into a transmitter of affordable, populist, mobile art; broadcasting sonic interjections about culture and the everyday.