House Music, Berklee’s first sound installation was conceived and created by Luis Maurette & Joo Won Park. Its concept was simple, a collective of works under the same roof, inside the same house. Each artist would choose a room of the house to be represented (bathroom, kitchen, etc.) and had complete freedom on the specifics of their piece. A collaboration of 8 sound artists (Nat Slaughter, Jana Saleh, Rob Fitzgerald, Joo Won Park, Christian Kjeldsen, Tom Owen, Arran Lowe, and Luis Maurette) used a wide variety of approaches and aesthetics to invent an eclectic House Music. Luis Maurette's Static was one of the 6 pieces which were created for the House Music sound installation.
Static is a piece for television and viewer whose symbiotic interdependence creates motionless time and frozen music. sit back and enjoy. Static represents the living room/TV room. A direct criticism of the role of television in today’s reality, Static is an eternal flipping through the endless array of channels. The viewer finds nothing to watch and therefore continues looking. The audio aspect of the work is an oscillation between the sound of the television and moments of unconectedness and numbness, where the sound freezes and holds time still.
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