steve roden is a visual and sound artist from los angeles. steve received an mfa from art center college of design in pasadena, ca in 1989, and a bfa from otis parsons in los angeles in 1986. his work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, and performance. steve's working process uses various forms of specific notation, such as words, musical scores, maps, and translates them through self invented systems into scores; these notational forms then influence the process of painting, drawing, sculpture, and sound composition.
the scores, rigid in terms of their parameters and rules, are also full of holes for intuitive decisions and left turns. his inspirational source material then becomes a kind of formal skeleton that the abstract finished works are built upon. in steve’s sound works, singular source materials, such as objects, architectural spaces, and field recordings, are abstracted through humble electronic processes to create new audio spaces, or “possible landscapes”.
the sound works present themselves with an aesthetic steve describes as "lower case'': sound concerned with subtlety and the quiet activity of listening. a few of steve’s upcoming events include a site specific sound installation for the museum of open air architecture in ivrea italy; a new audio work commissioned for the james turrel skyspace at the henry museum in seattle; a commissioned work for the 100th anniversary of edvard grieg's death in oslo norway; a sound/sculptural installation for the mercosur biennial, and a solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture at susanne vielmetter berlin projects, berlin germany.
