Jed Speare: Works
- Issue #289 (March '08) | Picture Gallery
- Featuring: Jed Speare
- Links: Family Vineyard
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A selection of images representing a retrospective of Jed Speare's sound works
View a selection of images, as a an accompaniment to Dan Warburton's Cross Platform piece on unsung multimedia composer Jed Speare.
More detailed information on each image is provided by Jed Speare:
Peaceful - An Ping (1999). Sound walk, photo, text and video installation, Tainan, Taiwan; from the Boston/Tainan Art, Urban Design and Architecture Exchange.
This project focused on the sound environment of the old waterfront village, An Ping, in Tainan, walking through its oldest narrow streets, video recording and notating sounds, interviewing residents about their aural history there, and suggesting that sound could be used as an urban design element to revitalize waterfront activity.
(pictured Jed Speare and Bart Uchida)
Audiograms (1992) . Excerpt from text and image work from the time I was a Hearing Conservationist, giving hearing tests to industrial workers in factories of Central Massachusetts.
"I can't hear the birds singing."
"If I wear hearing protection, I can't hear whether the lathe is cutting right."
Blind Pony . Installation, performance, Forfest Festival, Kromeriz, Czech Republic (2004) - collaboration with architect Vladimir Dankov, with the cooperation of the local veterinary school, high school participants, owner and contractor, that propagated that a vacant lot between two buildings become the future home of the "blind pony."
Cable Car Soundscapes San Francisco (1982) . A photo that is inside the insert of the Smithsonian Folkways album; pictured Jed Speare, Shoshana Wechsler, and Mike Davis
Container of Glass, Boston (2003). Four-channel video/sound performance; performed by Jed Speare and Jane Wang
Quiet Zone II, Toronto Island (2004). Performance/public art project where I worked through municipal channels to establish zones of quiet, not for the purpose of sound restriction but for promoting sound awareness and contemplation.
A Quiet Zone, Fitchburg, MA (1994) . Excerpt from photo, text, and multimedia exhibition about a neighborhood by that designation in Central Massachusetts.
More detailed information on each image is provided by Jed Speare:
Peaceful - An Ping (1999). Sound walk, photo, text and video installation, Tainan, Taiwan; from the Boston/Tainan Art, Urban Design and Architecture Exchange.
This project focused on the sound environment of the old waterfront village, An Ping, in Tainan, walking through its oldest narrow streets, video recording and notating sounds, interviewing residents about their aural history there, and suggesting that sound could be used as an urban design element to revitalize waterfront activity.
(pictured Jed Speare and Bart Uchida)
Audiograms (1992) . Excerpt from text and image work from the time I was a Hearing Conservationist, giving hearing tests to industrial workers in factories of Central Massachusetts.
"I can't hear the birds singing."
"If I wear hearing protection, I can't hear whether the lathe is cutting right."
Blind Pony . Installation, performance, Forfest Festival, Kromeriz, Czech Republic (2004) - collaboration with architect Vladimir Dankov, with the cooperation of the local veterinary school, high school participants, owner and contractor, that propagated that a vacant lot between two buildings become the future home of the "blind pony."
Cable Car Soundscapes San Francisco (1982) . A photo that is inside the insert of the Smithsonian Folkways album; pictured Jed Speare, Shoshana Wechsler, and Mike Davis
Container of Glass, Boston (2003). Four-channel video/sound performance; performed by Jed Speare and Jane Wang
Quiet Zone II, Toronto Island (2004). Performance/public art project where I worked through municipal channels to establish zones of quiet, not for the purpose of sound restriction but for promoting sound awareness and contemplation.
A Quiet Zone, Fitchburg, MA (1994) . Excerpt from photo, text, and multimedia exhibition about a neighborhood by that designation in Central Massachusetts.