INSTALLATIONS : soundNest | rideTheSnake | GamaLama
Self-Expression | Blurring the Borderline... | Water Sky | Building a Dream...

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soundNest

interactive installation / sound art
soundNest website

2013 - 2015 with "DIALOG +" & Justin Miller(GamaLama (Baltimore))
at Baltimore's Artscape

soundNest - ABC2 news, Baltimore

soundNest website
full-length "blurring the borderline..." video

details :
SOUNDNEST was a wildly colorful large outdoor installation, in Baltimore, MD, approximately 60x30 feet. The installation was constructed on the Mt Royal median strip, at MICA, in the heart of Artscape. During the summer of 2013, Liz Swanson, ryanSmith, & Alzaruba (also known as DIALOG +) collaborated with artists to construct 11 ft. tall panels made from found materials: clothing, bed sheets, construction fencing, etc. These panels (with a shear white backing), were then assembled to create a tent-like structure, and intertwined with pre-existing trees.
Sound artists, Justin Miller, and ryanSmith, constructed dozens of handmade instruments for the public to play inside "soundNest". These instruments included: bells, gongs, drums, wind chimes, cymbals, and handmade kalimbas. During the three days of Artscape, over 20 experimental musicians played onstage, inside "Sound Nest", from new talent like Luke Fisher to local legend Neil Feather. Blurring the borderline between audience and performer, the musicians were to harmoniously perform with the cacophony of sounds made by the random, public participants.




rideTheSnake

interactive installation / sound art
2017 with Justin Miller (GamaLama (Baltimore))
featured at:
PEX Summer Festival (Darlington, MD), WickerMan (Artemas PA), Mushroom City (Baltimore MD), & Figment (Baltimore)










GamaLamaDingDong

interactive installation / sound art
2014 with Justin Miller (GamaLama (Baltimore))

#gamalamadingdong

[ also shown at 2014's : Transmodern - MD, Playa Del Fuego - DE, and Wickerman - PA, Festivals ]

details :


2 of the "builders of soundNest", Justin Miller & ryanSmith, were asked to install their instruments at Fields Fest 2014. The public was invited to walk through, or play upon a feast of handmade instruments. These instruments include: bells, gongs, drums, wind chimes, cymbals, and handmade kalimbas.
At Fields, Ryan & Justin brought a "stripped-down version of soundNest", which they titled "GamaLamaDingDong"

Fields Fest website

Baltimore's City Paper made a recording of "the Nest"


city paper [part 1]


More photos from the City Paper's documentation of GamaLamaDingDong at "Fields Fest"






Self-Expression

interactive video & installation
2008, Thesis Exhibition

installation at the Maryland Institute College of Art (sample video: 5:00)

interactive Flash portion:



details :
interactive Flash video projection
(controlled by a mouse)
looping colorful video "Surreality"
ambient music
coffee table
couch
other family room objects








Blurring the Borderline Between Our Waking Life and Our Dream Life

interactive video & installation
2009, Thesis Exhibition

installation at the Maryland Institute College of Art (sample video: 2:50)
full-length video for installation:
full-length "blurring the borderline..." video





details :
one projected digital video with sound
suspended transparencies on plexiglass
second projection connected to a surveillance camera
a chair for the audience to become a part of the installation








Water Sky

video & installation
2010 with Karla Cott

video: 7:00

water sky image









details :
originally projected on a sailboat sail for Mobile Spaces
Lake Mendota, Madison, WI
by ryanSmith and Karla Cott

















Building a Dream or Dying Satisfied

interactive video & installation
2008

installation at the Maryland Institute College of Art (sample video: 2:50)

building a dream photo





details :
one projected digital video with sound
suspended transparencies on glass & plexiglass
picture frames
mixed media sculpture
melted speaker
paint

"If you were a black cloud in front of a rising sun, would you see the black or the light coming through the cracks?"



updated : 2018

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