Carlos
Pozo: Tropical
Depression
Closing Reception: Friday, 2.19.10, 8-10pm Closing Reception features sound performance by Endless Blinding Sunshine (Carlos Pozo & Steve Matis)live drone electronics (free)
Exhibition Dates: January 15 - February 20, 2010
Tropical Depression is
a four-channel audio installation accompanied by mixed-media
collages. The audio piece will combine electronics with remixed
and
distorted music blended to create a submerged, aquatic,
ambient
environment. The collages are inspired by technical diagrams
illustrating the path of hurricanes cutting across the Caribbean
towards Texas. The intent is to evoke a sense of dread,
foreboding, and doom while still retaining the feel of a "tropical"
paradise. The installation hopes to explore the idea of the tropics
as a state of mind and the way hurricane anxiety ("tropical
depression") affects the mental state of the inhabitants of hurricane
prone areas. This work was inspired by disorientation and
claustrophobia experienced during power outages after Hurricane Ike
(2008) and a house flood during tropical storm Allison (2001).BiographyBorn
in Concepcion, Chile Carlos Pozo currently lives in Houston,
Texas. Pozo studied architecture at the University of Houston and
has worked for small design firms since he was a freshman in college.
Between 1997 and 2002 he published Angbase magazine, a paper and online
fanzine devoted to contemporary noise and electronic music. Pozo
runs Pitchphase, a small audio label that has released experimental
sounds in CD and CDR by artists from the USA, Canada, and Japan.
He has done graphic design work for Frostwave Modular Analogue
(Australia), Audiobot Records (Belgium), PacRec Troniks (Los Angeles)
and Pitchphase and Angbase. In addition to Angbase, Pozo's music
writings have appeared in Ongaku Otaku magazine (San Francisco),
Grooves Magazine (Detroit) and Perfect Sound Forever (New York City)
online music webzine. Pozo's drawings, watercolors, sound work,
collages, and digital images are born out of his studies and work in
the field of architecture.
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