Kabir Carter Selected Projects Tunnels, Transistors, Mirrors Report Overexcited Recaptures Soft Errs Feedforward Walking in the City Opening Closed Loops Shared Frequencies Biography Statement News Contact

My work moves between sound, performance, and installation. I make architectural structures sound, and turn sound into architecture. I explore the ether world of wireless communications and the emotional import of electronically borne speech and sound. I investigate how contemporary sound production and dissemination has changed who we are and how we behave. I shuttle inside and outside of electronics and weigh the effect of cybernetics upon authorial identity and social space. My tools include analog synthesizers, two way radios, radio transmitters, defective compact disc players, and various electroacoustic apparatuses. I use these and other devices to activate architectural space as a sonic body, an abstracted body that one can walk in and out of, and explore in relationship to one's own physicality. These combined qualities describe my relationship to acoustic communication and information technology, just as they might describe what one feels while walking through a city while wearing and using digitally driven media devices. What kinds of feelings map onto or migrate from an iPod, or via the intangible landscape of cell phone conversations, text messages, email, or the internet? What kind of person, or social body is constructed through these entertaining tools of control? I want to expose and survey the new and unarticulated emotions that we feel in these ever changing spaces and environments.