Richard Garet, Extraneous to the Message
March 2 – April 13, 2013
Julian Navarro is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Richard Garet.
The exhibition consists of objects, installations, and multi-channel space interventions
that invites observation on the conditions of sound and its reception into the processes
of listening, immersion, communication, and noise as the background plateau that is
embedded in everyday function.
Garet’s intimate spaces and immersive situations, whether conceptual in origin or
stemming from his investigation of sound and function, are informed by the background
noise established by mass media culture of everyday life. Garet’s reductive process
seeks to invert the normative function of this background noise, drawing it up from
subliminal status to an active presence. He finds further inspiration from objectifying the
ordinary and from materials that incorporate problems of context, technology,
defunctionalization, commodity, and situation.
These works propose ideas that rest on depictions of ontological investigations of
sound, time, media, information, and noise as a subversive voice alongside
commodification. The title of this exhibition, “Extraneous to the Message,” invites
contemplation on the activity of listening, as the activity that reinvents the experience of
the subject, by comprehending sonic fields and the importance of its symbolic value
within a context of subjective-noise.
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Artist: Richard Garet
Title: 30 Cycles of Flux
Year: 2013
Media: Sound Installation
Duration: Indeterminate
This is a sound piece that consists of
an oscillator emitting a 30 cycles wave
to activate speaker cones with white
strings attached to the center of each
cone. The speakers hang from the
ceiling with the cone facing down and
with a white string attached to each
cone. When the cones become activated
by the infrasound the strings move in a
chaotic flow subsequently producing a
kinetic visualization of the wave.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: 30 Cycles of Flux
Year: 2013
Media: Sound Installation
Duration: Indeterminate
This is a sound piece that consists of
an oscillator emitting a 30 cycles wave
to activate speaker cones with white
strings attached to the center of each
cone. The speakers hang from the
ceiling with the cone facing down and
with a white string attached to each
cone. When the cones become activated
by the infrasound the strings move in a
chaotic flow subsequently producing a
kinetic visualization of the wave.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: 30 Cycles of Flux
Year: 2013
Media: Sound Installation
Duration: Indeterminate
This is a sound piece that consists of
an oscillator emitting a 30 cycles wave
to activate speaker cones with white
strings attached to the center of each
cone. The speakers hang from the
ceiling with the cone facing down and
with a white string attached to each
cone. When the cones become activated
by the infrasound the strings move in a
chaotic flow subsequently producing a
kinetic visualization of the wave.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Synchronous; the resonance of his voice
Year: 2013
Media: Sound Installation
Duration: Indeterminate
This work makes use of John Cage's
voice stating "I have nothing to say
and I'm saying it" through a playback
device that activates a sound exciter
that is attached to the neck of an
electric guitar, consequently vibrating
the strings and generating a field of
harmonics and overtones in real time.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Synchronous; the resonance of his voice
Year: 2013
Media: Sound Installation
Duration: Indeterminate
This work makes use of John Cage's
voice stating "I have nothing to say
and I'm saying it" through a playback
device that activates a sound exciter
that is attached to the neck of an
electric guitar, consequently vibrating
the strings and generating a field of
harmonics and overtones in real time.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Synchronous; the resonance of his voice
Year: 2013
Media: Sound Installation
Duration: Indeterminate
This work makes use of John Cage's
voice stating "I have nothing to say
and I'm saying it" through a playback
device that activates a sound exciter
that is attached to the neck of an
electric guitar, consequently vibrating
the strings and generating a field of
harmonics and overtones in real time.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Undercurrent
Year: 2012
Media: Sound Installation
Duration: Indeterminate
This work utilizes a modified tape player,
an audiocassette loop, an amplifier, and
two speakers to draw attention to
function-and-defunctionalization of media.
In this situation the objects become
ephemeral devices of noise generating
textures, crackles, pops, beeps, and white
noise similar to those found in everyday
life slowly changing and disintegrating
during playback.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Undercurrent
Year: 2012
Media: Sound Installation
Duration: Indeterminate
This work utilizes a modified tape player,
an audiocassette loop, an amplifier, and
two speakers to draw attention to
function-and-defunctionalization of media.
In this situation the objects become
ephemeral devices of noise generating
textures, crackles, pops, beeps, and white
noise similar to those found in everyday
life slowly changing and disintegrating
during playback.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Intermedium
Year: 2013
Media: 4-ch sound installation
Duration: 1’02” – playing indefinitely
focused on activating the four-window
array of a gallery space, utilizing sound
exciters and vibrations, and subsequently
turning the windows into speakers.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Intermedium
Year: 2013
Media: 4-ch sound installation
Duration: 1’02” – playing indefinitely
focused on activating the four-window
array of a gallery space, utilizing sound
exciters and vibrations, and subsequently
turning the windows into speakers.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Intermedium
Year: 2013
Media: 4-ch sound installation
Duration: 1’02” – playing indefinitely
focused on activating the four-window
array of a gallery space, utilizing sound
exciters and vibrations, and subsequently
turning the windows into speakers.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Intermedium
Year: 2013
Media: 4-ch sound installation
Duration: 1’02” – playing indefinitely
focused on activating the four-window
array of a gallery space, utilizing sound
exciters and vibrations, and subsequently
turning the windows into speakers.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Intermedium
Year: 2013
Media: 4-ch sound installation
Duration: 1’02” – playing indefinitely
focused on activating the four-window
array of a gallery space, utilizing sound
exciters and vibrations, and subsequently
turning the windows into speakers.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Untitled Series (painting semiotics)
Year: 2012
Media: Installation
Duration: Indeterminate
This work utilizes 58 slides captured during
the nineties from various collections of
paintings. The original slides were submitted
to rigorous processes of transformation and
decay. The work also utilizes a sonic
construct from processed magnetic tape
and audiocassettes. The sound becomes
activated in real time by photosensitive
techniques from the light emitted by the
slide projections.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Untitled Series (painting semiotics)
Year: 2012
Media: Installation
Duration: Indeterminate
This work utilizes 58 slides captured during
the nineties from various collections of
paintings. The original slides were submitted
to rigorous processes of transformation and
decay. The work also utilizes a sonic
construct from processed magnetic tape
and audiocassettes. The sound becomes
activated in real time by photosensitive
techniques from the light emitted by the
slide projections.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Untitled Series (painting semiotics)
Year: 2012
Media: Installation
Duration: Indeterminate
This work utilizes 58 slides captured during
the nineties from various collections of
paintings. The original slides were submitted
to rigorous processes of transformation and
decay. The work also utilizes a sonic
construct from processed magnetic tape
and audiocassettes. The sound becomes
activated in real time by photosensitive
techniques from the light emitted by the
slide projections.
Artist: Richard Garet
Title: Untitled Series (painting semiotics)
Year: 2012
Media: Installation
Duration: Indeterminate
This work utilizes 58 slides captured during
the nineties from various collections of
paintings. The original slides were submitted
to rigorous processes of transformation and
decay. The work also utilizes a sonic
construct from processed magnetic tape
and audiocassettes. The sound becomes
activated in real time by photosensitive
techniques from the light emitted by the
slide projections.
recording the sound of each work.
