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michael northam

topographies of experience

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“The Way of Light” – Mumbai, India – April 10 & 11, 2014
documentation of projects

“The Way of Light” – Mumbai, India – April 10 & 11, 2014

by Michael Northam Posted on 11. November, 201416. March, 2016

“The Way of Light” a site-specific sound/light installation April 10 & 11, 2014 C.K. Cama […]

Mollusca (collaboration with Francesco Cavaliere)
documentation of projects

Mollusca (collaboration with Francesco Cavaliere)

by Michael Northam Posted on 16. March, 201116. March, 2016

Mollusca was a project created by myself and Francesco Cavaliere. We performed a few times […]

“Harvest of Vectors” – Movements Gallery, Austin, Texas 1994
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“Harvest of Vectors” – Movements Gallery, Austin, Texas 1994

by Michael Northam Posted on 1. January, 199424. June, 2020

I have created several installations working with piano wire – this exhibit created with the […]

My work is based on my life-long fascination of ‘what makes an environment an experience.’ I have witnessed that the largest part of the environment that produces ‘experience’ is carried through the vehicle of sound. For over two decades, I have explored in a number of formats how sound is in fact an ‘experiential’ medium—transcending the frameworks of ‘music’ and entering into a deeper understanding of consciousness itself. Applying my research, observations and experiences I have developed a personal and intuitive process of what I call sonic ‘compost’-ing. A process of listening to multitudes of sounds (gathered from nature, ‘translated’ through instruments and found on the topography of objects), weaving these sonic materials through various process to finally arrange them in time and space. These sound works then generate living tapesteries of vibrating transforming textures intended to produce eidetic generative experiential sonic environments to heal, inspire and illuminate imaginal spaces within those who are willing to listen.
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