Video Installation Detail

Cole Pierce Light Installation, originally uploaded by Laura M Gray.

Photo by Laura M Gray, 2009

New Mix! Summer Bin

Part 1
Summer Bin Pt 1 by colepierce

Part 2
Summer Bin Pt 2 by colepierce

Part 3
Summer Bin Pt 3 by colepierce

(my summer jams)

Philip's Antenna

Hike, Interrupted

Hike by colepierce

Field recording of Tyler wearing a wireless lav mic walking into the woods talking to himself, away from the receiver and then returning to signal range. Recorded in the mountains somewhere in Oregon, August 2008.

Tape Epiphany at Antena Gallery

August 7- September 5, 2009

ANTENA
1765 S. Laflin St.
Chicago IL 60608
www.antenapilsen.com
antenapilsen (at) gmail.com
(773) 257-3534
Hours: by appointment only

Cole Pierce, Tape Epiphany 2009
VHS Tape and Nails, 14'x12'
Antena Gallery
Chicago IL

Tape Epiphany at Antena Gallery

Tape Epiphany (2007) Block Museum of Art

Friends and Colleagues,
While most of Chicago is going to be standing in sweaty shoulder to shoulder solidarity for Lallapalooza, Antena Gallery and I will be hosting a quiet revolution of our own for those that are truly down. I have painstakingly installed "Tape Epiphany" (2007) in Antena Gallery's Project Wall Space and to prove it, the opening reception is Friday August 7th from 6pm - 10pm. I look forward to seeing you there.



August 7- September 5, 2009

ANTENA
1765 S. Laflin St.
Chicago IL 60608
www.antenapilsen.com
antenapilsen@gmail.com
(773) 257-3534
Hours: by appointment only

facebook invite

Tight Quarters Fashion

Lines - Some Noise Correction, originally uploaded by Laura M Gray.

Photo by Laura M Gray

Per Second

2 Channel Video and Sound Installation by Cole Pierce

6 Channel Interactive Sound Installation by Dustin Camilleri

Upcoming Show, Per Second Project

Friends and colleagues,

This weekend we are exhibiting new work in a show titled Per Second taking place in a vacant storefront in Logan Square as part of the Milwaukee Ave Arts Festival. Cole Pierce presents a two channel video installation in collaboration with Dustin Camilleri, who created a six channel sound piece in response to one of the videos. Roxane Hopper presents a single channel video called Echo Amphitheater, and an installation composed of photographs and a neon wall sculpture.

Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, July 31st from 6 to 10pm.

Location:
2827 N Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL

When:
July 31st - 6 pm - 10 pm *Reception
August 1st - Noon - 10 pm
August 2nd - Noon - 8 pm

Check out the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival website for the schedule of events and view the map of participating galleries.

Facebook event invitation

Per Second Project at Milwaukee Ave Art Fest

Per Second

2827 N. Milwaukee Ave

Chicago IL

August 31 - July 2

Milwaukee Ave Arts Festival

Cole Pierce

Roxane Hopper

Dustin Camilleri

Genre Study: Glitch Ambient

 

Bin 3, Part 1 (17 min)

Ijspret 1              2:26 Machinefabriek
Faithful Friend 4:02 The Humble Bee
On Waiting        8:44 Greg Haines & Wouter van Veldhoven
Variation 2        5:09 Molly Berg + Stephen Vitiello

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This is what I refer to as crafty ambient music, because it is obvious that instrumental craftmanship is emphasized just as much as production techniques. Aligned more with glitch, this ambient music does not rely on spacial harmonics and extremely long tones but focuses on specific textures; balancing field recordings, post production noodling and instrumental works into a carefully composed harmony. 

Work in Progress: Experiments in Audio Degeneration

Liftoff tape bell loop by colepierce

liftoff-tape-bell-loop

Work in Progress, experimenting with analog distortion, this track is comprised of samples of stages of audio degeneration. I'm using a loop of bells and kids toys that I made with Forrester, recorded to cassette and stripped off portions of the magnetic tape with typewriter liftoff tape. This was digitized, looped and dubbed back onto the damaged cassette, then I distorted the tape further by wrinkling it with my fingers. This was again digitized and I layered the audio into 3 tracks, applying effects using Ableton.

T. Carter Mixtape

Side A
The Dirty Three -Red,
T.Carter -The Warning,
Sia - Breath Me (Four Tet Mix),
Sebadoh - Subtle Holy Gift,
Radiohead -In Limbo,
J Dilla - One Eleven,
Elvis Perkins - Moon Woman II,
Nina & Jim - Our Discussion,
Sebadoh -Whitey Peach,
Aric Naue - Tropical Depression,
T.Carter - The Hindenburg


Side B

Phillip Glass -A Gentleman's Honor,
Isolee - Face B,
Flying Lotus-Auntie's Lock,
Child's View - Asse Que Dodo,
Edan - Promised Land,
High Places - From Stardust to Sentience,
Hot Chip - The Warning

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Tyler's Blog
I Wanted to Write an Email

Mixtape, May 2005 - Sweat Equity

Widely eclectic bbq mixtape I made 4 years ago.

Side A

1 sweat equity side A by colepierce

John Grisham - excerpt from Testament, Charlie Hunter - New Orleans Organ Interlude, Skip Spence, Sonic Youth - Tokyo Eye, Caribou - Barn Owl, The Modern Lovers - Modern World, Fennesz - Asusu, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Animal Midnight, Mouse on Mars - Fantastic Analysis, Willie Nelson - Georgia on my mind, Gustavo Santaollalla - La Partida, Piano Magic - Saint Maria, The Dining Rooms - Catania City Blues, Earth Wind & Fire - Can't Hide Love, M. Ward - Sweathearts on Parade, One unshod horse passes on rough, John Grisham - excerpt from the Testament


Side B

2 sweat equity side B by colepierce

The Sea & Cake, Califone - Pastry Sharp, The Cinematic Orchestra - Channel 1 Suite (Four Tet Mix), Stevie Nicks - Gypsy, The Arcade Fire - Haiti, Bernard Hermann - Twisted Nerve, Timeout Drawer - Soon a winged beauty will appear, Skip Spence, Ogurusu Norahide, Nanci Griffith - Boots of Spanish Leather, Secret Chiefs 3 - Book T -Exodus

Frog & Toad Tape

My dad asked me if I could copy a tape to a cd for him. I said sure, what is the tape? He just laughed and said I'd like it. Next time my parents visited he handed me an instructional tape on identifying frog and toad for species found in Iowa. The tape sounds a bit damaged, perhaps by a magnet.

1 Frog & Toad Tape by colepierce

As you can all imagine, the canadians destroyed my mix cd

Fence

Fence

As you can all imagine

As you can all imagine, my latest mix has been mailed to 50 of my closest friends and the mp3 version is available to download. This one is a lightweight, starts off slow easing from long form jazzy ambient, leading into the second set of chilled out jazz and dub influenced jams, including an excellent Marcie Sampson track borrowed from DJ Bylamplight over at Liquid Dilemma. The third set ends up in downtempo idm but begins with 3 disparate songs that use a similar mind melting organ melody. The mix was printed in an edition of 50 using block printing ink and a yoga mat, packaged with cropped pages from a found algebra book inside a fiberboard case. A zip file of the mix is available on colepierce.com, just in time for a 3 day weekend.

Link to Cole Pierce Mixes

Music Box - You are pretending to be a sea-horse

Music box  by  colepierce

This is a recording from 2007 of my son talking about a music box my wife gave me for Christmas. 

The aquarium style music box contains spinning sea-horses, one of which has a cut out photo of my head 

taped to the sea-horse.

Golden Eagle Storage

Golden Eagle Storage, originally uploaded by colepierce.

one evening a while ago

different electro

different electro, originally uploaded by colepierce.

Rest

Rest, 1-4
Cole Pierce, 2009
Acrylic on Canvas
65"x65"

Active Archive

Active Archive
Cole Pierce, 2009
Oil Paint, 3.5" Floppy Discs, Nails
Dimensions Variable
Currently 58" x 80"

Tight Quarters

Tight Quarters (Signal Distortion), Excerpt
Cole Pierce 2009
Digital Video and Sound Installation
10'04

Tight Quarters, Full Version

The working title for this piece is Distortion/Tight Quarters (2009) and is intended it to be a wall sized projection.

The source material for the video is a glitch between a DVD recorder and a monitor. The audio was originally a piano recording, but it has gone through several generations of analog and digital manipulations.

Style

The infinitely reproducible item collides with obsolescence, leaving an emptiness that I associatively compare to the point past comprehension.