Fields of Sound

About…

Jonny Farrow is a Brooklyn-based sound artist, composer and performer of new sound and video works, is a member of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, and has an M.A. in musicology. His compositions make use of instruments, field recordings and other prepared sounds. His artistic practice centers around soundwalking—listening to and recording urban soundscapes and other found sounds. In his soundwalking practice he often seeks out locations where soundscapes overlap and then aurally explores the boundaries of these places in order to better understand how we perceive sound as it interacts with architecture and its encompassing landscapes. In performance, he often utilizes the small sounds of objects, transforming those sounds into new, evocative soundscapes. His work has been seen and heard at Diapason gallery (Brooklyn), Mina Dresden Gallery (San Francisco), PPOW Gallery (Chelsea, NYC) and the Cabinet Magazine Gallery (Brooklyn). He has performed at various festivals (Move>>Sound (San Francisco); Ear to the Earth (NYC), Art in Odd Places (NYC)) and has lead various soundwalks and lectures at cultural and educational institutions (The Guggenheim Museum (NYC); Parsons School of Design (NYC); School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA); Issue Project Room (Brooklyn).  Currently, Jonny teaches music, culture and sound art classes at several CUNY schools. A full CV is available upon request.

Out in the Field…

Selected Performances / Soundwalks

Diapason Gallery. Performed live video entitled “Occult Scenes from Brooklyn” from a score created in the Video Composition Workshop. April 2010.

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Led soundwalk for Nate Harrison’s Sound Studies course. April 2010.

Muhlenberg College. Led soundwalk and gave lecture as part of Center for Ethics “Sound in Space” exhibit. March 2010.

Parsons School of Design. Led soundwalk and gave lecture for Radhika Subramaniam’s Urban Aesthetics Course. February 2010.

The Guggenheim Museum. Led soundwalk for museum guides as part of training initiative to service sight impaired museum visitors. October 2009.

Art in Odd Places: Sign. Coordinated and led series of public soundwalks. October 2009.

Issue Project Room. Sound-Walk-A-Thon. Led walk in Prospect Park (Brooklyn) to raise money for the venue. June 2009.

Ear to the Earth Festival at Judson Church. Soundbox 2. NYC, October 2008.

Canary Project. 40° 73°. Three public soundwalks. Fort Green and Gowanus, Brooklyn. September- October 2008.

Move>Sound’s Soundwave>Series ((3)). Public soundwalk from San Francisco City Hall/Market Street and environs. San Francisco, CA. August 18, 2008.

Move>Sound’s Soundwave>Series ((3)). Musique d’ombre. Intersection for the Arts Theater. San Francisco, CA. August 17, 2008.

Tune (Out)))side 2007. Soundbox 1. free103point9.org’s Wave Farm, Greene County, NY. July 2007.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Sound performance/collaboration with poet/visual artist Jill Magi. NYC. May 2007.

Performa ’07, Nicolas Dumit Estevez’s The Last Supper. Sound design and performance including composition of original hymn to art, “Hymn #271,” in collaboration with Estevez. US Customs House, NYC. November 2007.

Selected Installations / Site-Specific Works

“PPOW 4″ for The Hostess Project “Sirbed” event at PPOW Gallery in Chelsea. Composition created in              response to “Debris” exhibit made from on-site recordings captured at gallery. Chelsea, 2010.

“Gowanus Walk” for the “Sound in Between” event at the Cabinet Magazine Gallery Space (Gowanus) Brooklyn. March 2010.

“Moving Water” for the free103point9 event. Site specific collaboration developed for performance at Catskill Point, . Participants were broken into groups and led through various sound-making exercises while I coordinated the groups in performing the sounds like an orchestra. Catskill, NY, July 2009.

“In His Shoes: The More i Honor You the More You Bless me.” Audio installation. Collaboration with Nicolas Dumit Estevez. Dean Project , Long Island City, NY, 2008.

“Microradio Soundwalk” free103point9 Radio Festival. Collaborative, site-specific work utilizing prepared soundscapes and sounded found objects, performed in the woods on free103point9’s “Wave Farm” and broadcast on the property over very low power fm. August, 2006.

Selected Works for Video

Video Compostition Workshop: several works in development for performance-based video compositions mainly using MAX/MSP/Jitter. February 2010-present

Fort Greene Soundwalks 1 and 2. Quicktime slideshow with time-compressed audio. 2008.

B61 and B61 Night. “Ambient” videos for internet-based psychogeographic map of MTA bus route in Brooklyn, NYC. 2006.

Filmstrip. Score for experimental video in collaboration with poet/visual artist Jill Magi. 2006.

Selected Recordings

Various Artists, Inside/Out NYC – The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology; Giant Ear))) webradio. Compilation CD. Co-producer/contributor. free103point9 Dispatch Series. 2008.

Jonny Farrow, Musique acoustique et concrete. Self-produced full-length CD. Collection of electro-acoustic compositions. 2007.

Selected Webcasts / Broadcasts

Giant Ear))) “Favorite Sounds” on free103point9.org. April 2010.

framework:afield “Acoustic Ecology” on Resonance FM, London; Radio Zero Lisbon, Portugal; Radio Campus, Brussels, Brussels. March 2009

Giant Ear))) “Over the River and Through the Woods” on free103point9.org. November 2008.

Giant Ear))) “Winter” with artist Andrea Callard on free103point9.org. March, 2008.

Giant Ear))) “Back to School” with Loren Chasse on free103point9.org. October 2007.

Teaching / Presentations

Adjunct Lecturer: Hunter College/CUNY, Intermedia Arts MFA program “Sound Environments”; The City College/CUNY, “Music 101” and “Writing About Music”; The Center for Worker Education/CUNY, “Music, Culture and Politics,” “Wireless Music,” and “Listening to Jazz.” 2007-Present.

Ear to the Earth Festival. Co-hosted opening night of Electronic Music Foundation annual event. October 2006.

Conflux Festival. “B61” video presentation. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. September 2006.

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FULL CV AVAILABLE ON REQUEST