Mar 27, 2015 - Apr 5, 2015
Cory Greenfield
Bird In/Sound Out
Stained pine, electronics, and metal mesh
6 x 36 x 4 inches
Bird In/Sound Out: A fluttering motion, an urgent voice… a lone imaginary hummingbird enters the round opening of a birdhouse, activating a recording device.
The material and formal expression of this conceptual birdhouse is an abstraction of the house typology and musical instrument design combined with gestures of speed, levitation, and sound collection and the invitation to listen closely. The hummingbird’s messages to us, subtly audible through the speaker at the diminished end, evoke a combination of compressed energy, the immediacy of life, musical origins, and biological universals.
Cory Greenfield is an award-winning architect and owner/principal of Campoverde Architecture and design partner with Entropic Industries. His projects range from the immediacy of local, small-scale renovation to the speculative nature of international design competitions. Recent works include a self-built home renovation, a pumice-crete dance studio in Abiquiu, New Mexico, and a corporate headquarters for a solar equipment manufacturer. Cory teaches undergraduate and graduate design studios at the University of New Mexico.
Musician and sound designer Jeff Chynoweth is an experimental sound observer who has a high-quality recording device on him at pretty much any given time to capture what he finds interesting. Using these organic or-found sounds as the foundation, he loops, re-sections, and otherwise manipulates them into songs and compositions.
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