Writings and Catalogs
"Gone To Touch"
October 1, 1987
by Michael Brewster
An essay about getting hijacked by a sleeper while psyching out the site's specifics for a piece called "Touch and Go"
Looking back: the evidence had been there all along, all over the place. The telltales had gone undetected, overlooked. I hadn't recognized them as parts of the picture. The plot had been so unexpected. I hadn't been ready for it. Most of those minor incidents had been clues. Once I got wise, I could spot it over and over again, all over the place, the same "M.O." (...)
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October 1, 1987
by Michael Brewster
An essay about getting hijacked by a sleeper while psyching out the site's specifics for a piece called "Touch and Go"
Looking back: the evidence had been there all along, all over the place. The telltales had gone undetected, overlooked. I hadn't recognized them as parts of the picture. The plot had been so unexpected. I hadn't been ready for it. Most of those minor incidents had been clues. Once I got wise, I could spot it over and over again, all over the place, the same "M.O." (...)
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"Where, There or Here?"
September 30, 1998
by Michael Brewster
An essay about sound as sculpture – 1998
You can't make sound become hard and solid; but you can make it seem to stand still, as if hovering in place, so that you can walk around inside its acoustic structures. Sustained sound in a room with good echo can appear to us as an archipelago of audial sensations of space. Standing still, sound is a dimensional substance you can move through without hitting your head on any thing. Its a real good material for sculpture.
Sound has properties beyond its considerable powers of evocation that are actual spacial physical things we can feel and (...)
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September 30, 1998
by Michael Brewster
An essay about sound as sculpture – 1998
You can't make sound become hard and solid; but you can make it seem to stand still, as if hovering in place, so that you can walk around inside its acoustic structures. Sustained sound in a room with good echo can appear to us as an archipelago of audial sensations of space. Standing still, sound is a dimensional substance you can move through without hitting your head on any thing. Its a real good material for sculpture.
Sound has properties beyond its considerable powers of evocation that are actual spacial physical things we can feel and (...)
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"See Hear Now" Catalog 2002
Michael Brewster See Hear Now A Sonic Drawing and Five Acoustic Sculptures
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Irene Tsatsos, Barry Schwabsky, Peter Clothier, Interview with Michael Brewster by Brandon LaBelle
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Michael Brewster See Hear Now A Sonic Drawing and Five Acoustic Sculptures
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Irene Tsatsos, Barry Schwabsky, Peter Clothier, Interview with Michael Brewster by Brandon LaBelle
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Introduction by Michael Brewster on "See Hear Now" LACE Catalog CD
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Venezia Brochure 1979
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"Touch and Go" Brochure
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