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Sound Mapping Alabama:
A Journey through Alabama Navigated by Ear
March–April 2009
South Garden
Sound Mapping Alabama: A Journey through Alabama Navigated by Ear is a designed compilation of recordings collected in
Alabama by Rich Curtis. His outdoor, aural installation piece
will be embedded in the museum's South Garden. The sounds
evoke a range of responses and heighten the visitor's awareness
of sound as a distinctly influential component and vehicle of
environmental identity. Curtis, an Alabama native, received his
MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004.
Since then, he has created multimedia projects that investigate the character of place through sound.
Curtis has created projects in the United States, Canada, Kenya
and the Netherlands. He currently teaches in the art department
at the University of North Alabama.
Sound Mapping Alabama was funded in part by a technical
assistance grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
On Thursday, April 16 at 5 pm, in a lecture entitled “Alabama Mockingbird,” Curtis will discuss Sound Mapping Alabama project, the history of his work and introduce his latest project Mockingbird: Mapping Sights and Sounds.
For more information on Curtis’s Mockingbird project go to: http://almockingbird.blogspot.com.
