WALLS HAVE EARS

Installation with Gak Sato for Sound Art section of the art fair Art Verona, 2008, curated by Gabi Scardi.

An interactive listening room created by Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato.

Artists invited to create compositions for the listening room:

Haleh Abghari (Iran, lives in New York)
Gabriele Di Matteo (Italy)
Marc Kalinka (Russia)
Claudia Losi (Italy)
Steve Piccolo (New York)
Anja Puntari (Finland)
Gak Sato (Tokyo)
Elliott Sharp (New York)

Glimpse of the public listening room with white stools. The back wall, identical in appearance to the others made of plasterboard, was actually a white tarp held in tension.

Behind the scenes, the control room used by the artists to trigger sound pieces and to interact with visitors to the listening room, unbeknownst to them.

Another view of empty listening room.

Entrance.

View of room from backstage monitor.

Gak at work in the backstage space. Microphones pic up sounds of water and other materials played in performative sound actions.

A live theremin is placed near the fake wall. When visitors approach the wall it makes sounds. The visitors soon caught on and began to dance or wave their arms, realizing that the room was responding to their movements.