Spanish born Salinas and American Bergman form an accomplished sound art duo, specialising in the manipulation of found sound. Based in Oslo, their work comprises of sound art, installations, web projects and video art. They have exhibited in museums, galleries and art ceneters around the world.
In 2002 they won an Award of Distinction in digital music for the audio installation 'Revisionland'.
The Detroit Rebellion projected through feng shui objects
This installation piece by Bergman and Salinas explores the concept of how ideas survive through time, particularly how the lifespan of an object is determined by how they are passed through generations to become tradition.
Beyond this, the piece interacts with the viewers understanding of space, which obviously realtes to the project "Sense my space". The reason I chose to look at this installation in relation to my work is due to its portrayal of light as the artists ask the question "Where does light come from?". This questioning of light appeals to me because of the close link between light and vision, sound and hearing.
The art piece consists of of a very minamalist composition of feng shui objects set up in such a way to allow a large and looming shadow of the bonsai tree to be projected onto the corner wall behind the objects. This wall itself also shows a moving image of the streets of Detroit projected onto it.
The image of the bonsai tree projected onto the wall led me to consider the idea of using projected images in conjunction with sound for my own project. Beyond this i've also considered shadow puppets as a more playful way to convey an image or narration of my sound recordings.
Here you can watch the interview given by Bergman and Salinas on their Feng shui installation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqYJY0mVOdQ
Another art form to look at in relation to Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas is their noise music, which is then heavily incorporated into their sound art.
An interesting piece to look atwithin this sphere is their album Be Mine, which features a sound board which allows you to overlap clashing sounds as you desire creating an interesting array of sounds and the ability to see for yourself which sounds can stand out more then others. This particular piece features conversation, interview pieces, found sound, trumpets, crickets and music creating a surprisingly harmonious piece of sound art. The piece itself is based on the idea of love.
http://www.alejandra-aeron.com/be_mine.html
Scotch Monsters by Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas
Scotch Gardens consisted basically of an ornamental style garden combined with live Scottish folk music and the sounds of Scottich monsters, some of which were the Dunters and the Red Caps.
http://www.alejandra-aeron.com/scotch.html
On their website they provide pictures combined with the soundboard of noise music played at the exhibition, and even give an account of the legends of these monsters.
Basically the idea is to look at contrasting visual and sound. Personally I want to go into a pub and record the conversation there, then placing that sound against the visual of maybe children playing, it's a very simple take on innocence vs the eh not so innocent.
