You’re Standing Inside the Instrument: A Score for 19 Buildings

LISTEN HEAR GALLERY | MAY 1 – SEPTEMBER 13

More than 20 architects, designers, and other experts in the built environment suggested their favorite buildings in Indianapolis that we then paired with Indianapolis-based artists. The artists then played some aspect or aspects of the buildings as sort of instruments to create a part of a combined soundscape or a sort of song.

Eight of these audio creations will play at once in the Listen Hear gallery inside CAMi, a space typically dedicated to sound-based art exhibits. All 19 audio pieces will rotate at different times, creating a soundscape that varies throughout the run of the show. The audio pieces are all paired with static videos of the exteriors of the buildings by Jim Walker.

The 19 buildings are: Newfields, the Athenaeum, the Indiana State Capitol, Friedens United Church of Christ, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Irwin Library at Butler University, the IU Indianapolis University Library, Indianapolis International Airport, Christian Theological Seminary, Garfield Park Conservatory, the Indianapolis Artsgarden, the Pyramids, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, Madame Walker Theatre, Barton Tower Apartments, Crispus Attucks High School, Indianapolis City Market, Jungclaus Mill, and the new CAMi Main Building.

Curator: Jim Walker with support from Landon Caldwell

Artists:

Oreo Jones (Walker Theatre)

Rob Funkhouser (City Market)

Landon Caldwell & Mark Tester (Jungclaus Mill)

Aaron Coleman (Crispus Attucks )

Laurel Judkins (Irwin Library )

Sofi Parker (Newfields)

Regan Wakeman (Athenaeum)

Carrington Clinton (Indianapolis Artsgarden)

Mina Keohane (Indiana State Capitol)

Rachel Leigh (Friedens United Church of Christ)

April Knauber (Indianapolis Motor Speedway)

Jim Walker (CAMi Main)

Bree Flannelly (IU Indianapolis Library)

Jordan Munson (Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument)

Charlie Redd (CTS)

Clockwork Janz (Garfield Park Conservatory)

John Flannelly (Pyramids)

Sharlene Birdsong (Indianpolis International Airport)

Andy Fry, Devon Ashley & Vess Ruhntenberg (Barton Tower)