{"id":1259,"date":"2013-10-22T13:15:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T20:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/paramedia\/"},"modified":"2019-12-30T14:58:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T22:58:26","slug":"paramedia","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/paramedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u1298\/Yasunao%20Tone.jpg\" style=\"width: 459px; height: 271px;\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Yasunao Tone is a widely known sound artist and his piece <em>Paramedia<\/em> is on the cutting edge of sound art. \u00a0Curated by <a href=\"http:\/\/arika.org.uk\/\">Arika<\/a>\u00a0(a community organizer) and installed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/whitney.org\/Events\/YasunaoToneParamedia\">Whitney Museum<\/a> in New York, <em>Paramedia<\/em> is an intense, engrossing piece of sound art in which speakers correlated to different frequencies give and recieve a range of sounds.\u00a0 Arika describes <em>Paramedia<\/em> as \u201ca dense, immersive environment constructed using 8 speaker stacks and custom-build hardware that splits multiple pre-prepared sound sources by their frequency, each speaker stack revieces any sound produced within its designated frequency range, creating a split, special, aurally disjointed and hallucinatory experience.\u201d \u00a0Using these pre-prepared speakers Tone creates this audio soundtrack that at first is jarring and even unpleasant, but begins to pull the listener in.\u00a0 He punctuates the sound with moments of silence, and uses machinery to play with the direction of the sound, playing the recordings forwards and backwards.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/2980525\"><div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1259-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/vimeo\" src=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/2980525?loop=0&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/2980525?loop=0\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/2980525?loop=0<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/a>\u00a0(this is a video recording of\u00a0<em>Paramedia,\u00a0<\/em>I am having trouble uploading a video that will display and play in the article)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Tone is using machines (speakers) to create a work that builds on itself and repeats, much like other works that fall under the category of Coded Form and Electronic Production.\u00a0 This form of art calls into question the creator, and enables the artists to create works previously impossible.\u00a0 Tone takes this to another level and blends the ability to reproduce things Mechanically abd Biologically.\u00a0 While the speakers (machines) create and expand on the noise, Tone manipulates it, creating imperfections and mistakes that machines otherwise would not make.\u00a0\u00a0 Tone explains this concept sayin \u201cMacines are designed not to make mistakes\u2026 in our behavior we often make mistakes, so why not machines also? I added that reality to it.\u00a0 So its not destruction but an addition.\u201d (Arika quoting Tone).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Yasunao Tone&#8217;s manipulation of sound and usage of speakers in Paramedia is reminiscent of\u00a0 Joel Ong\u2019s work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkfrequencies.com\/2013\/02\/08\/wagon\/\"><em>Wagon<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0Wagon consists of 6 speakers which move around the installation and interact with the soundspace as well as three kinetic sculptures. 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