Christopher DeLaurenti: N30: Live at the WTO Protest November 30, 1999
Elevator
October 29, 2009 – January 31, 2010
Seattle-based artist Christopher DeLaurenti patrolled the front lines of the WTO protests recording the sounds of the drums, slogans, chants, and violence churning around him. His four-channel sound installation couples his footage with police transmissions made on that same day. The enveloping playback featured in N30 fuses the street’s sonic storm with what the artist describes as a “simmering polyglot of radio traffic, polyphonic speech, splashes and sprays of tape hiss, enigmatic numbers glossolalia, and other broadcast anomalies.” The work emphatically reasserts the range of emotions felt during those five chaotic days.
Described as a “new music rabble rouser,” DeLaurenti is a composer, musician, writer, and installation artist. His challenging work often utilizes found soundscapes and field recordings to push the popular conception of music into unexpected territory.