Archive Remix: A Sound Art Collaboration
OHSS is pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative, Archive Remix: A Sound Art Collaboration, in collaboration with Wave Farm. This special project will support artists’ creative interpretations of our growing audio archive, the Community Library of Voice and Sound (CLOVS). CLOVS is comprised of nearly 500 oral histories and over 150 songs and ambient sounds of Hudson area communities; each year, OHSS participants and alumni add up to 40 long form oral history interviews to the collection.
We established this sound art commission with a two-part aim: 1] to facilitate ongoing interpretation of the audio collection and 2] to create public/social experiences of the archive.
Please join us in welcoming the recipients of this award: Kalli Anderson and Khonsu X. Each selected artist will share an original work with our communities virtually or in person. Read more about our recipients below.
Coming Up this June: As part of our Oral History Intensive in Hudson, NY in June (June 15 - 26) and as one element of her Archive Remix piece, sound artist Kalli Anderson will facilitate a public listening, singing, and recording event in a Hudson Valley orchard. Details about this event will be announced shortly; to learn more and receive more news about OHSS workshops and events, sign up for our newsletter.
Kalli Anderson
Sound artist Kalli Anderson will create a sound artwork designed to be experienced in proximity to fruit trees in the Hudson Valley, inspired by the ancient practice of wassailing. During our 2024 June Intensive, Kalli will host a public singing and listening session as part of her process towards a final installation; details will be announced via our newsletter soon!
Kalli is a Canadian sound artist, documentarian and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her audio and film work has been screened, exhibited and broadcast/podcast around the world. For audio documentary, she has won a national RTDNA Award and has been named a finalist at the Third Coast/RHDF Competition, The Hearsay International Audio Festival and the Canadian Association of Journalists Awards. She is the director of audio and associate professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Khonsu X
As part of Archive Remix, Khonsu X will be sampling from Community Library of Voice and Sound in order to create an experimental audio broadcast called “Living Libraries,” reminiscent of a Brechtian radio drama-turned rap opera.
Khonsu X is an experimental audiophile; a classically trained violinist since the age of six, his style of play is intuitive, free-form, and constantly in search of resonant frequencies. his poetry is informed by his experiences as a queer Black man traveling across Turtle Island, always ending up in the mountains. Khonsu is co-steward of Ezili’s Respite Farm & Sanctuary, cultivating perennial & medicinal food sources, and raising heritage breed chickens, guineas, and small ruminants.
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