On behalf of all of us at VOLUME, we would like to thank all of the artists, de Young staff, SFEMF, swissnex San Francisco, and everyone who attended for making rE/Visioning the Collection such a terrific success. A year and a half in the making, we couldn’t have asked for a better experience. Thank you.

The DeYoung Museum is commissioning eight electronic sound and media artists to “plug into” permanent collection to create new collaborative performances. These commissions curated by VOLUME and inspired by art pieces chosen from the DeYoung’s collection, will be performed on Friday, September 10^th from 5:30 to 8:30. This event is presented in partnership with the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival.

Sol LeWitt "Bands of Color in Four Directions and in all Combinations"

Sol Lewitt Bands of Color in Four Directions and in all Combinations

Seth Horvitz and Nate Boyce will collaborate on a sound and visual performance in the Wilsey Court. They will use the system of sequential combinations set up by Lewitt contains fertile material for conversion into sound and moving images.

Andy Goldsworthy "Drawn Stone"

Andy Goldsworthy Drawn Stone
Loren Chasse will create a performance in the Koret Auditorium based on the Andy Goldsworthy installation Drawn Stone. He will use large rubbings or impressions of the installation at the entrance to the museum, which will be displayed lying flat on the stage. An edit of recordings made in the entranceway will be amplified through small speakers spread out along the edge of the paper. Chasse will perform sounds generated from the use of stones and the same instruments used in the recording. The audience will able to enter the stage as this work will be intimate.

David Wilson

The Gottardo F.P. Piazzoni Murals
Lucky Dragons will create an interactive musical and visual performance in the Piazzoni mural room in collaboration with David Wilson. They will use project live drawings and animations of drawings in process, along with videos created in the northern Californian hill landscape. The projections will respond to and expand on the aesthetic of the murals. The musical content would be tonal, dynamic, and rhythmic contours–landscape drones, produced by audience participation using interfaces custom-made for the performance.

Cornelia Parker Anti-Mass
Dave Aju will collaborate with San Francisco visual artist JD Beltran to produce an immersive sound and visual environment in the Wilsey Court entitled Anti-Master. Aju and Beltran will perform a work that acts as an aural complement to Parker’s piece. As the sculpture was constructed out of the remains of a burned down Alabama church, they will use acoustic Gospel and Southern Baptist Church recordings, digitally dissect and process them beyond recognition, then reassemble them into a structure unlike the original in form, but equally moving in depth and emotional content. Parker’s Anti-Mass is a brilliant example of how contemporary sculpture can connect with typically unrelated cultures by purposefully chosen source material, and elicit stronger feelings from the viewer with the respective narrative in mind.

Josiah McElheny Model for Total Reflective Abstraction
As this piece was designed to create numerous reflections of its surroundings, Kadet Kuhne’s soundscape will create a sonic representation of movement in the surrounding space. The sounds triggered are representative of how blown glass and mirrored objects to sound if they could actually emit sounds: tonal, bright and smooth with a slow attack and decay. Kuhne’s soundscape will give spectators an experience of seeing themselves and the surrounding artworks in the reflections, but also in hearing themselves in the space as if reflected off the sculpture itself.