INNER NATURE (2008):Bavarian Forest Triptych, A Sound Installation by Jeff Talman :: May 28 – June 29, 2008 :: in Gibacht, Bavarian Forest, Germany.

Located near the mountain’s summit, INNER NATURE (2008) completes a trilogy of forest installations close to sites of previous work, SENTINEL TO THE WIND (2006) and WHITE SOUND DOWN (2007). The new sound installation, an expressive sonic field shaped from principle frequencies extracted from a recording of wind rustling through the trees, is complemented by the programs from the previous installations to form a three-part work, a sixty-minute cycle of sound presented for the first time in its entirety.

Presented by Berghof Gibacht Gibacht (Waldmünchen), Germany

MIRROR OF THE MOON (2008) A Video and Sound Installation :: June 5 – 8, 2008 :: Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy :: 8th Annual Conference of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)

Wave sounds of the Mediterranean Sea, filtered to the same frequencies as the resonance of the museum gallery space and then expressively shaped, create a multi-channel sonic environment for this installation. Video of the sea’s wave motion is projected downward onto a large disc of white marble, which echoes the marble floor of the 18th Century villa chamber. A confluence of wave motions of water, sound, light and gravity is manifest in the sea-tuned gallery.

Project support: the Berufsverbandes Bildender Kunstler Niederbayern/Oberpfalz e.V., Kulturverein Bayrischer Wald e.V., the Voithenberg Foundation, the City of Waldmünchen, the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation and Emerson College.