F Newsmagazine - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Art, Culture, and Politics

Alyssa Moxley

Alyssa Moxley graduated SAIC with an MFA in Sound. Using multiple voices, microphone techniques, field recording, music, sound design, and speaker placement, she plays with memory as both a personal and shared medium.

A Northern Forest in Albania

Text, Image and Sound Extracts from a Travel Journal

Pzzzt – The Buzz from Albania

A communist-era air-raid shelter is home to Tirana’s new independent gallery space.

Deliberately Casual

The sounds of New York car horns in the 1960s are audible beneath the uninflected, steady narration of Yvonne Rainer delivering instructions for movement. A set of chairs faces the window where the audience is able to sit and listen.

Attention Crash

The Barbican Center’s Digital Revolution exemplifies the most frustrating aspects of a life fully infiltrated by technology.

The Sound of Flight and Fight

A review of the Speed of Sound experimental concert at the Farnborough Wind Tunnel.

3D Musical Expression

A visit to The New Interfaces in Musical Expression Conference 2014, London, UK

UIC’s Free Art School

This summer UIC is offering free studio and art history classes in Chicago with prominent artists from Chicago and beyond.

The Sound of One Man Thinking

Alvin Lucier (b 1931) composes within the subtle spaces of sound. Many of his pioneering works are simple, yet striking explorations of acoustical phenomena: the beating of interfering frequencies, the natural resonance of rooms, and the possibilities in the movement of speaker cones.

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