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COELACANTH Coelacanth is the sound art collaboration between LOREN CHASSE and JIM HAYNES, operating the tools of an imagined science to explore the various possibilities for sound to originate from traditionally non-musical materials. Alchemy, as a systematic if impossible attempt to transform base metals into noble ones, is an adequate parallel to Coelacanth’s arena of research. They encourage sympathetic relationships between carefully chosen materials and sounds, and push them in ways that they might transcend their purposefulness. Copper, stone, glass, sand, shortwave radio, rust, wind, water, and mud are the active participants in Coelacanth's events and situations, providing both metaphoric potentials and visual sensibilities for their activities. From these situations, the two invoke a sound that is an aggregate of sustained harmonics, continuously evolving sound forms, and broad gestures of textural details, and which could be described as a 'broken minimalism.' Currently, Coelacanth is based out of San Francisco and has four published recordings: The Chronograph (Partition, 2001), The Glass Sponge (23five, 2003), Mud Wall (The Helen Scarsdale Agency, 2004), and a CD+DVD entitled Wrack Light In Copper Ruin (2006) in collaboration with Keith Evans. Coelacanth has performed at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Lab, 964 Natoma, Cuesta College, ESP Gallery, Four Walls, and many other Bay Area performance spaces. Both Chasse and Haynes are directors for 23five. www.helenscarsdale.com/coelacanth |
