left - traffic conductors and designers too, what a team! --- right - a scale model of the tennessee river valley made out of construction materials
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documentation from the TRAFFIC CONDUCTION piece, a collaborative project with Sarah Wagner in efforts to create musical renditions of popular songs using the controlled sound of cars driving across a bridge with metal grating in the center. After much research, we discivered that every two miles an hour difference was a step, and thus was the procedure for scoring TAPS, ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT, and the CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO. Overall it was fairly successful, but perhaps only in terms of the edited video and audio documentation. Please stay tuned for the forthcoming release of the recordings, sketches, and more! all photos by steve west
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left - back in the gallery...a workstation with questionnaires about the local bridge, its sounds, favorite bridges, favorite sounds, etc complete with a live sound feed from the back parking lot and sounds from the bridge playing through the boombox on the table --- middle - a replica of the chicamauga dam rushing out from the storefront window into the main gallery floor, a de-tuned radio beneath the tarp created rushing pulsing white noise sounds, powered by the current of the extension cord river --- right - a video loop made with an abstracted electronic test tone and test pattern made specifically to reference the pattern of sounds of the bridge when cars drive over the central three sections of grating

left - our version of the chicamauga dam in the front window --- right - a worktable modeled after the veteran's bridge, complete with level, paint sample cans, and plastic sheeting, very clean cut modern bridge structure, even if we do say so ourselves --- below - a long shot of the gallery featuring yet another view of the entire river valley (with the brightly colored spot close to camera representing the chattanooga area) and the ladder serving multiple purposes...as a standin for the walnut street bridge later found too weak for cars and converted to a pedestrian park..as a means of elevating a sound piece which continuously plays pulsing electronic bird and bug sounds from the top of the ladder

basically one of the ellipses of time we wanted to suggest was one of having one's head in the future with one's feet in the pastSarah Wagner and I created a scale model of the Tennessee River Valley using building materials at AVA and also did a TRAFFIC CONDUCTION performance on the Market Street Bridge in Chattanooga Tennessee last April, see below for public performance photos!
studio sketch for the scale model


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