VEN VOISEY: NO NOUMENON

is a sound artist and sculptor from Oakland, CA. His multi-sensory performances, objects and structures seek out transcendent and transformative possibilities amidst the familiar. "No Noumenon" is a choral work for disembodied voice amplified through an spacially-arranged array of utilitarian bullhorn loudspeakers. These are all accompanied by improvised nomadic vocalizations; some moments awkward and disarming, others disorientingly angelic.Ven Voisey

The piece uses live and recorded vocals amplified through an array of bullhorn speakers to create a layered composition that is in conversation with the multi-part music for choirs that would have historically been performed in the former church that houses Epsilon Spires. The sound sculpture can be experienced before the performance during the gallery walk.

“Throughout my work I find myself continually trying to build church or hold mass, not in worship or glorification of a specific entity, but as an interface with the unknowable through familiar, clunky, awkward, human…