An Attempt to Reach Nirvana.
Sound Installation, CD
Exhibition History: Future Shock 5.29.09 - 5.30.09 at The Black Mangrove Collective, Miami FL
An attempt to reach nirvana is a conceptual sound research experiment conducted by the Human Observation Society in the summer of 2008.
Using the songs from Nirvana's Bleach, Nevermind, Incesticide, In Utero, and Unplugged albums, The Human Observation Society is attempting to reverse the creative process back to nothing. Or to state it in spiritual terms, we wanted to cease the fetters of the audio.
Every song was played at the same time and time stretched to different time intervals (one second, one minute, ten minutes, sixty minutes, the length of the sum of every album and every song playing at once) in order to test it's reaction to time.
Everything and nothing shall be heard.
With the aid of a sound manipulation program the Human Observation Society has created 6 separate recordings for this work.
1. Every song time stretched to 1 second and then layered and played at once | 00:01
2. Every song time stretched to 1 minute and then layered and played at once | 01:00
3. Every song layered and being played once | 05:50
4. Every song time stretched to 10 minutes and then layered and played at once | 10:00
5. Every song time stretched to 60 minutes and then leayred and played at once | 60:00
6. Every song time stretched to the total of every album added together and played at once | 269:15 (can only be heard as installation)