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Project Arbol:Deer-B-Gone: journal of a guerrilla sound installation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2004

MARY WRIGHT
Affiliation:
Department of Music, Woolworth Building, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA E-mail: maryw@princeton.edu and prc@cs.princeton.edu
PERRY COOK
Affiliation:
Department of Music, Woolworth Building, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA E-mail: maryw@princeton.edu and prc@cs.princeton.edu

Abstract

Project Arbol:Deer-B-Gone is a an outdoor sound installation of indefinite duration for twenty-three speakers. It takes on a guerrilla approach to sound installation art. Low-tech concepts and supplies, such as car amplifiers, aircraft cable, inexpensive cassette players, coupled with an overall irreverence for mainstream consumerism, created something like a Disney World theme park gone awry. The installation, which was site-specific, took place in a backyard in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Yards and yards of cable were woven through the trees. Speakers were later mounted on the cable. Once in place, the speakers moved slowly along the cable. Each speaker played its own sound track. While there were some technical difficulties that plagued the project throughout its development and performance, overall Project Arbol proved to be a resilient installation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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