Volume: Bed of Sound
19 August 2000
P.S.1
August 19th
3pm
at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Volume: Bed of Sound
A Discussion-with-music
“Volume: Bed of Sound” is a large sound art exhibition at P.S.1, featuring the largest futon-bed in the world and new recordings by some 60 artists. On August 19th, P.S.1 presents a special event to celebrate this unique exhibition. A panel of artists from the show will gather around microphones, each equipped with their own laptop computer, and broadcast a “discussion-with-music” through speakers in the Volume gallery. The public can leasurely lie back on the bed and listen to a discussion on “sound in the age of digital manipulation,” interspersed with real-time computer processed music by the panelists and excerpts from recordings that are featured in the exhibition itself.
Panelists/performers include: Elliott Sharp (Volume curator), Zeena Parkins, DJ I-Sound, Stephen Vitiello, Ben Rubin, and Genesis P-Orridge. This event will take place inside, while outside, P.S.1 will continue it’s Warm Up 2000 live DJ series with Arto Lindsay, Liminal, and DJ Spooky, from 3pm to 9pm.