Sound re:Vision

In 2017, I was C3 Visiting Artist at the Dallas Museum of Art. I created Sound/re:Vision, an installation exploring mechanized music. Visitors wore headphones and listened to a diverse playlist of recorded music, ranging from opera to bebop to gamelan, and drew or wrote in response to the music. They also composed chance music by punching holes in a strip of paper, which could be cranked through a music box mechanism. Visitors’ drawings and punch strips were collected and made into zines. These were available through a vending machine, which featured seven music box mechanisms and a kalimba, all of which visitors could activate. The project ran from July through September, 2017.


Visitors created hundreds of zine pages - a few are pictured below:

In 2018, the DMA held an exhibition called Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art, featuring art and artifacts dating from the 1910s through the Second World War. When I was invited to contribute an interactive project for visitors, I created the Metropolis Music Box, pictured below.

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