Singing Sink | Will Owen

Residency
Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency
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Singing Sink, Will Owen (Queens, NY & Philadelphia, PA).

February 2017. Audio mixer and audio exciters.

Will Owen’s two projects, Singing Sink and 10 Minutes, revolve around the cyclical needs of living.

Singing Sink uses appliances to conduct sound in Elsewhere’s Kitchen Commons, a functional installation used daily by artists, interns and staff to prepare and share meals. An amplifier and electro-magnetic audio exciters attached to the sink and washing machine transform the appliances into a immersive, surround-sound speaker system. As the appliances are used- filling with water and piling up with dishes- the speakers change timbre creating a living audio scape that responds to Elsewhere’s daily functions.

This piece was presented at the First Friday public opening entitled “Time Sensitive,” during which he invited the public to a create a participatory group musical composition with their phones and the Singing Sink.

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Will Owen
Will Owen

Originally from Waynesville, North Carolina, Will splits his time in both Philadelphia and New York City. He is currently an artist-in-residence with Flux Factory in Queens, NY and a curator at Little Berlin gallery in Philadelphia, PA. Will works mainly with Sound, Installation Design, and Food in interactive ways. Will grew his hair long and has been having second thoughts ever since and has had the honor of participating in many great projects including: Black Mountain College Museum Re: Happening '14, Baltimore AltScape with Open Space Gallery '14, Copenhagen Art Week '15, Århus Art Weekend '15, MATA Interval '15, & ALT CPH Copenhagen Alternative Art Fair '16. He has shown art work at varying venues from the Museum of the Moving Image to a burned out, abandoned BP gas station. He sometimes works collaboratively with a lot of amazing folks across many genres including: Matthias Borello, Sally Szwed, Jung In Jung, Molly Haslund, Billy Dee, Amaryah Armstrong, Lena Hawkins, Walker Tufts, Suze B, Alex Nathanson, Nadia Botello, Nathan Philips, Raphael Alexandre, Richard "YoVinyl" Nathaniel, The Median Movement, Siph Pristed, Hsiao-Jou Tang, Julieta Triangular, and many more incredible people he is lucky to know and work with.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Owen created Singing Sink and 10 Minutes.

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