VIDA, BEN - Extraction

Future Audio Graphics is pleased to announce Extraction, the latest from composer and sound artist Ben Vida (Pan, Amish, Shelter Press, et al). Extraction (FAG 001) is a collaboration between Vida, visual artist Meredyth Sparks, and curator/writer Anthony Elms and is the first in a series of collaborative releases for Future Audio Graphics. \r\nContinuing Vidas explorations of digital and analog processing systems, Extraction gives particular focus to aural phenomena_¢‚Ǩ‚Äùengaging electronic, non-representational sounds that appear to cut, move and oscillate on both vertical and horizontal planes. Building on his past work, Vidas two, side-long contributions to Extractioninclude, among other things, a series of what appears to be infinitely long, sweeping tones staggered between short, halting breaks. The audio parallels an artistic practice and method that visual artist Meredyth Sparks has developed over the last five years in her own studio and practice.\r\n\r\nVida is a 2013 Artist-in-Residence at Brooklyns Issue Project Room and will be celebrating this release with a performance there on October 17th, 2013. Anthony Elms is currently the Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the editor of White Walls and is a curator of the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Meredyth Sparks has exhibited internationally, including recent solo exhibitions at The Arts Club of Chicago and Veneklasen/Werner, Berlin. Her work is currently featured in the group exhibition, Test Pattern at the Whitney Museum of American Art. -Future Audio Graphics.