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House Show

by Aidan Bay

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Live at the Sun House
Salt Lake City, Utah
in the living room
feb. 25 2024

9-channel recorded media
15 minutes, looped 8 times (for 2 hours total)
6 speakers and 1 sub in basement, piano with exciters and amplifier attached to soundboard
piano bench, bookshelf, sheet music, work lamp

stereo field simulated using Audio Routes Panner device by cycling74, situated from entrance of exhibition space (piano on the right, main speakers and subwoofer on the left, two auxiliary speakers in front and one on the right)

all sounds created using piano recordings using Zoom H4N, Blue Hummingbird microphones, and contact mic designed by Sound Object

video excerpts found here:
vimeo.com/917782072?share=copy


“House Show” is a sound art installation that explores the ecology of the home and concept of domesticity through the deconstruction of living space and sonic exploration. The work engages with the history of the piano, traditionally a middle-class status symbol, as well as the futurist prophecy of its successor, the player piano. The composition contains only recorded sounds from the piano, manipulated and spread across the space through speakers placed underneath the audience, and attached to the piano’s soundboard.

The domestic promises security, privacy, and self-determination. In suburban contexts, however, its isolationism perpetuates patriarchal structures, limits our social bonds, and sustains a misguided focus on “property” as opposed to an honest engagement with our surrounding matter and social circles. The basement in the work invites the viewer to consider the unacknowledged foundations and subconscious undercurrents of domestic life.

The piano has provided me a complex space of interiority as my life has developed—a private practice encouraged by an oppressive religious environment, while also remaining a haven for musical exploration. By bringing this solitary practice into the DIY tradition of the house show, replaying sounds through the piano they were recorded on, and disturbing the composition of my current home, I juxtapose the private and the public, the past and present, and question the comforts of domestic life and its relationship to community.

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released February 28, 2024
composed and mastered by Aidan Bay
photo by Aidan Bay

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