field|guide

field|guide is a collaborative multimedia art project, curated by myself and the composer Aaron Michael Smith. The project explores the liminal spaces between visual art, poetry, essay, sound, and silence. By blending fragments of the past with senses of presence, field|guide merges scientific formalisms with esoteric methodologies, repeatedly untangling and re-tangling the threads of the familiar and obscure. The |guide is a physical and digital journal, released annually. You can visit our store here.

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Grein: Taxic Gnosis

Taxic Gnosis is a conceptual album composed, mixed, and mastered by Grein (Jay Rauch and Aaron Michael Smith), and produced by Dinzu Artefacts. The work involves multi-instrumentalists collaborating over a distance, living in Boston and Seattle respectively, and explores geological structures of time that form and coalesce through iterative improvisation.

TAXIC GNOSIS stretches the soloist between immediate physicality and mediate consciousness. ˛ˇˇ˛ˇˇ˛ˇˇ˛ˇˇ˛ˇˇ˛ˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇ An ear becomes a room becomes a playback machine, listening for its own death, the sound of subjectivity ++,,..002222332200//2233//11//.. ......,,))!!""''**((&&##"" dissolve self into multiplicity;;

I was involved in the final stages of the project, writing liner notes and accompanying word art.

The album is available on Bandcamp and through the Dinzu Artefacts website.

“The Sensible Life“

The “Untitled Chile Project” is a collaborative installation/sound-art project created by the composer and sound artist, Andre Mestre, Aaron Michael Smith, and myself. The project is inspired by the philosophical writings Emanuele Coccia (particularly The Sensible Life: a Micro Ontology of the Image) and involves converting original digital and analog music into ambient mechanical motion through computer algorithms and open-source electronic prototyping platforms like Arduino. The first installation is planned for 2022.