Opening: Saturday January 18
6:00 - 8:00 PM  at GSU
8:00-10:00 at Eyedrum Gallery
Douglas Kahn's lecture is on February 19 at 7:00 PM
for more information visit: http://cara.gsu.edu/pulsefield/

Pulse Field, an exhibition that draws energy from the music and art schools of
Georgia State University, will explore contemporary and historic forms of sound art.
The title describes the terrain and the process of exploration that will be tied to the
exploration of this inventive art form. In the School of Art & Design Galleries, a
spectrum of works by international artists will be featured in two sound art
environments, a surround soundscape and an archive designed as a bibliotheque/
café intended as a center to inform and educate the audience. Concurrent with the
GSU show, the nonprofit artspace Eyedrum Music and Art Gallery will present
L’Objet Sonore, an interactive display of sound art objects.

The heart of this project will be the three-week residency of a French sound art
collective. The group Ouie Dire has been selected to produce a sound art postcard
of Atlanta, assisted by our students. In this effort, two cultural and artistic
geographies (France and Georgia) will intersect in the creation of a site-specific CD
aimed at defining the city of Atlanta through sound.

A CD-ROM catalogue will be produced to document Pulse Field. Douglas Kahn, MIT
Press author of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts and Wireless
Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant Garde will collaborate in curating the
archive. Kahn will write the centerpiece catalogue essay and lecture during the
exhibition.

Pulse Field will contribute to both the exposure and documentation of sound art. It
will approach the genre from both scientific and creative angles, featuring work that
ranges from free-form to refined, from purely abstract to more musical compositions.
An environmental and experiential show, Pulse Field will strengthen and develop
the potential for future experimentation and innovation.