SOUNDCHECK: A sound and multimedia art exhibition by four interdisciplinary artists

SOUNDCHECK
A sound and multimedia art exhibition by four interdisciplinary artists

In cooperation with the Adamson University - Gallery

Opening Reception: 7 July 2009, Tuesday at 2:00 P.M.
Exhibit runs until July 30, 2009

This exhibition aims to show an equal blend of both visual and sound as means of access to the artist's art making process. With an objective to intercalate experimental sound as an interdisciplinary art form, notably extending art practices by developing unique mediums in parallel with new technologies. The exhibit aspires to burgeon the audience's understanding of art to this day. The constant development of art having its own language and fresh approach to aesthetics is continuously developing its own methodology. It shatters the tradition, disrupts the order, repels, invigorates, brings out a different perspective... and disrupts it again.


Participating artists in alphabetical order are:

Sherwin Carrillo is a musician by profession, Carillo plays rhythmic sounds with his djembe, a West African musical instrument assembled locally and popularly used for world music. With this instrument, he strives to investigate the nature of communication in a global sense, knowing that music is fundamentally a universal language that expresses the emotional faculties of humankind. Sherwin experiments with deconstructing primal sound and reconstructing it, combining modern influences and merging them into sound art that can be characterized as unified diversity. As a sessionist specializing in percussions, he has participated in numerous bands, performance art events and painting exhibitions.

Marlon Magbanua is an avid musician and abstractionist, who uses various musical instruments and accessories for his performances. Having come from a musical background, much of Magbanua’s work has involved an interplay of aural and visual constructs. The past few years, however, have seen an increased fascination with translating sound into color and form—literally, assigning both numerical and visual equivalents to the elements of sound. Given the functional quantification of visual elements (most familiar in digital imaging software), sound, Magbanua exerts, may very well find direct translation in images, given the right set of values and equations.
Magbanua is a graduate of Fine Arts at the Technological University of the Philippines. He has been an active participant in paintings and performance art festivals and exhibits across Asia, including two major art events in Taiwan and Japan, and has been distinguished in several abstract art competitions.

Lirio Salvador is a sculptor, inventor, instrument builder and the prime mover of E.X.I.S.T. One of the Philippines’ pioneer in experimental music. Salvador has been doing Sound Art and Experimental Music since the late 80's and early 90's with his punk band Publiko, then the interdisciplinary art group Intermidya. Eventually, he formed Elemento; a multi-disciplinary experimental and sound art collective, where he creates his music using his assemblage of musical instruments made out of bicycle parts, stainless steel tubes and other industrialized materials which he commonly called 'Sandata'.

Mannet Villariba is a grand prize winner of the NCCA’s Websining Digital Art competition in 2007. Villariba explores his medium with an enthusiasm for electronics as it relates to the realm of sound and visuals. After a fine arts education, corporate environment, and with a self-confessed anti-synth ideology in his garage-band days, Villariba's exposure on new media led to an advantageous and favorable understanding of these unforeseen forces underlying electronic sound with its mystical, ambient and chaotic appeal, eventually shifting his ideals, which in turn rejuvenates his expression in visual art as well. Interactive visual interpretations of these forces are increasingly the main focus of his work. He actively participates in various performance art events locally as well as several festivals abroad, such as the Tupada Xing, Wunderspaze, Singapore 2006 / Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Japan, Summer 2007 / Asean Contemporary Art Exchange, Yangon Myanmar, January 2009 / Changwon Art Festival, South Korea, April 2009 / Gwangju International Performance Art Festival, South Korea, May 2009.

Adamson University Art Gallery
900 San Marcelino Street, Ermita, 1000 Manila
Tel. nos. 524-20-11 loc 255 and 383-37-35
Exhibit runs until July 30, 2009
Open Mondays to Fridays, 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.

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