Interview with sculptor Leif Brush, of Duluth. Brush was one of five Minnesotans that won $10,000 grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board for annual fellowships. Includes sound segments.
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How do I get it to you? Salut raw material to my ears are going to hurt before and on the basis of all the years that I've been listening to Natural physical sound. I'm beginning to be influenced by the natural order rather than any previously held in my mind now notation system right now, even though my I'm influenced obviously by all the historical presidents that I've had in terms of sound sound preferences know that you can't escape that but I I find that All those sort of Escape me when I'm Deluge by Nature artist. His media are wind weather and the subtle sounds made by growing things is motive collection is a net worth of wires and discs which limb the land around his home. He came to delouse in search of space trees quiet cold. It takes a year to make a recording of a tree you have to compress time. You have to do a sample method maybe 30 seconds every 5 hours for a year. And then you would get a sense of something going on. That's one thing and the other thing is that when the the Cottonwood tree is plugged in and that there's some kind of motion by Mel RBC you get the grown and stress and strain of it and also during the out the reception of the sap and the the swelling of the sap in the spring is quite a bit of pressure and there's quite a bit of internal moans and groans and tissue stretching that happens when not the cells expand when the staff puff Lowe's in Spring. Juxtaposed with his Fascination for the internal goings-on in nature is his extraterrestrial vision of such sounds being sent around the world by satellite real-time linkages of distant places to audible sculptural constructs. Hear the province of an artist who was trained to the limits of canvas and paint in a conventional program at the Chicago Art Institute of the brushwork needed that discipline to permit something deep to well up and it gave you the opportunity for the sewn to emerge in a autobiography biography, which I have now in 16 volumes as referred to as the red Iceberg memory which encapsulates all of my work from art school in the 64 until I graduated in 72. It's all there and it's not a fact there's a lot of pic of future things in the right brain memory, so I wasn't able to see set the top of the iceberg in our school and now I'm playing around with the below the water iceberg. See this when oscillating misses a half inch brass ribbon as a pair of three three different wires in here. This is a wind turbine Network and this starts the way over here. That you'll hear some of its. Hello. It's a low murmur it so you can see that it's almost 10 feet long and you can get different harmonics at different places along the Strand like up there. It's barely oscillating and it's really oscillating quite a bit here and they look down their further. It's really taking off so you can get five or six different frequencies the harmonics from each of these strands. This is 200 feet. The work is divided in when I call researches in there three researches. The first one is the Turing instruments and these are the things that you seen out in the backyard drainage commence the coral St. Electronics the Airborne vibration such as Thunder Brown sound and physical constructions in the forest. The second phase is the terraplane choreography spelled c h o r o g r a p h y these events will combine people the electronics and of the forest during instruments that the third one is referred to as a circulation Trilogy and the orchestration will join the train instruments the terraplane choreography, but it's to take place in real time in three different places. Rochester Fargo-Moorhead and Duluth the motivation in in the work is simply concerned the extension of the balance of sculpture to include sound as they a simultaneous and revelatory adjunct to form and orchestrating actual Natural Forces rather than simply physically replicating Memoir synthesizing artificial once I don't I'm not intend I don't intend to copy things that drain instruments in there, components are not scaled up versions of existing musical instruments either but they are in fact an expression of new Research into form and sound project Leaf brush will invoke the dimension of interactivity with people it will be an event this terraplane choreography and could become a Roadshow likely one of the more unusual to hit the lasting to take place at dusk in the forest. transportable because we have plenty of trees in Minnesota the airplane choreography the components consist of a large painted glass double pane and that will pick up forest sounds and be transmitted to the dancers. It's suspended between the trees storefront glass very large penis last three dancers that will be linked by wires at the waist. And they will be able to tune or very and change the sound of these wires to pull them together in the performance of the performers will have a belted waist belt that will hold this is essential piano wire between the three of them. It also includes a piano Steinway Grand in the forest of a comment which will be on essentially a clothesline that will pass over the heads of the members of the audience at very high speed during the performance. The drain instruments will be a Fed in into sound the piano will be mixed and everyone will be able to interact in real time to what the here and how people one dancer here is the reaction are the words of the other dancer the dancer. For example, I will have a sensor on their person and they will be able to say a couple of words. Maybe it'll say thunder and that will trigger off something in someone else's mind. So what's going to happen? I do not know. I do know the component parts. Artist brush says can operate with an historical context for him traditional art forms. Merely provided a launching pad at the timer married in contemporary Museum. essentially said that the painting and drawing in photography which was conceptual should be laid to the side and it's now time to get on with what and when I started with the trade instruments and being out in real space cuz I knew that's where the sculpture really belong and I knew that the sculpture I was talking about had to do with a cerebal a sound kind of interaction that it was there was a free open space. It was The Ether that I was talking about engaging in at the at the wedding. I said that they know we're anxious to get on with it. Leaf brush with participants and audience a CO Explorer in a voyage of Discovery means of travel the waves of sound I'm Claudia hamston in Duluth.