Raviv Ganchrow AR'00

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Raviv Ganchrow, AR’00, will be presenting a day-long sound installation at the French pavilion at the Venice biennial this year:

This coming weekend, he will be presenting his installation Lightning Ellipse at the French pavilion in Venice as part of the Radio Utopia series (August 1st to 5th 2023).

Above is the image of the site-specific circuit and sketch of the installation.

For a longer description of the work (installation will be up for one day), please click here.

Here is a short description of the work:

Lightning Ellipse is a site-specific sound circuit, installed in the portico of the French Pavilion, Venice, patching together earth’s native transmissions (lightning), received on ground telluric currents, passing through contextual features of the site. The sound installation relays electrical activities from the ground beneath the French consulate in the Netherlands, during a recent torrential thunderstorm that quenched a record-breaking dry-spell, played back through agencies of Venetian echo (acoustics of Basilica di San Marco) and geometries of architecturally broadcast voice (the pavilion’s elliptic portico) interspersed with the call-and-response of a common blackbird.

For a link to the Radio Utopia proceedings,  please click here.
For the French pavilion transmission ball theater description, please click here.
For the eFlux blurb, pleasel click here.

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