PHANTOM NOISE


Phantom Noise is a multimedia installation work made for the MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Visual Studies. The work is thematic dealing with popular music technologies such as vinyl records and cassette tape, psycho-acoustics, choral music and notions of the phantom in popular media culture.

Phantom Noise, Installation Shot


1:25:41, vinyl record dust mixed with clear gesso.

Songs for Piano, cassette tape and an acoustic piano.


Come With Me to Dreamland, blackout room consisting of plywood,
wall paint, 9 speakers and 3 stereos on infinite phasing.





The sound of Phantom Noise: Come With Me to Dreamland as a live recording in the space during the opening exhibition can be heard here:


The source material sound of Phantom Noise: Come With Me to Dreamland can be heard here:


Echoface





























  Echo Face was a site specific installation that took place at Tractor Gallery in Portland, OR. The work featured a series of cassette recorders playing different harmonic notes sung directly into the recorders, each one on homemade tape loops. The reel to reel tape was stretched over a nail on the ceiling and played the overall sound of the room in the installation, on a third of normal playback speed.

Nataou, 2011

















During Global Studio PNCA Artist Residency the song Nataou was recorded in Dakar, Senegal as a collaboration with folk singer/songwriter Pape Tour Mbaay.

Listen to the song:

The End, 2010



A christmas video present featuring Mariah Carey's version of All I Want for Christmas.
The End from Bryson Hansen on Vimeo.

Caldera Residency, 2010

















Caldera works in cooperation with PNCA to select five MFA students from PNCA to temporary live with two visiting artists at Caldera outside of Sisters, OR. I was invited and stayed with Elizabeth Malaska, Daniel Glendening, Micheal Welsh, Ray Barrett and visiting artists Guillermo Brown and Mary Weatherford.

During my stay I helped shoot video and began to create what would eventually be the score to Micheal and Daniel's video To Destroy the Sun.

Watch the final video here:




I also spent quite a lot of time working on some music for an ep called Skeletonz. This song in particular was recorded in discussion with Guillermo:

Enchanted:



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More information on Caldera: http://cal.pnca.edu/events/13/

Guillermo Brown: http://www.myspace.com/guillermoebrown/

Mary Weatherford: http://www.brennangriffin.com/artists/view/42/

Tautologies, 2010





















A series of sound pieces made through heavy editing of turntable manipulations, featuring appropriated recordings from relaxation records.

Sounds of waves:




Sounds of the rain:






Also take a look at a video I made of some appropriated Luc Ferarri interview footage:


Sound Specs, 2010


















Electro-acoustic composition performed at Disjecta in Portland, OR based on sine wave interpretations of automatic drawings in staff paper.

Eternal Om, 2010

















An installation consisting of two endless tape loops containing appropriated sound from a drone music cassette tape titled "Eternal Om".

Gazzookabazookaz, 2010



An improvisatory performance involving a list of instruments including tape loops, home stereos, a turntable, an alarm clock, guitar and a microphone.

100 Songs for Guitar, 2010

























An installation consisting of a playable sound sculpture. This is a guitar wrapped in cassette tape containing 100 song I had written on guitar, made playable through a manipulated walkman.



Every Song I Ever Recorded, 2010

Every song I ever recorded played simultaneously.

Roy Orbison








    Roy, Installation, 2009

The installation had a homemade vinyl record playing on loop.

Hear the sound: 


Desert, 2009


A sound piece was made as a response to the results of a google image search on the word "desert". 

Listen to the mp3:




Mustache Police, Small Town Clowns, Tree Dice, 2009




Mustache Police, Small Town Clowns, Tree Dice, 2009


DVD Packaging:

 
 

 



 

 

 

 




Hugo Ball Summoning, 2008




A performance in which I dressed up as Hugo Ball and read his poem "Gadji Berri Bimbi" to music. This was shot by Diva Gallery in Eugene, OR for the installation 13 Instructions, which was made in collaboration with Kartz Ucci.

Super 8 Films, 2008

Kaleidoscope



Whiz!



Piñata

Planet of the Vampires, 2008



Planet of the Vampires, 2008. In collaboration with Matthew Nixon.