Loud Objects
The Loud Objects create italo-disco with minimal components:
microchips, a power jack, an audio jack, and wire. The group solders
custom audio circuits live, creating audible fluctuations of
electricity with these bare elements. Gradually building a complex
sound circuit, they present electronic music in a form closer to a
physical instrument than a laptop. Their performances invite the
audience to bear conscious witness to each musical gesture: the
addition of a microchip; the soldering of an output pin to the audio
jack.
The New York City-based trio (Kunal Gupta, Tristan Perich, Katie
Shima) stage their lush italo-disco constructions with soldering irons
on top of overhead projectors, slide projectors, flourescent light
towers, and remodeled guitars. Formed in 2005 at Columbia University,
the Loud Objects have since skirted between the worlds of noise rock,
contemporary music, circuit-bending, and chiptunes, playing at
Brooklyn house parties, collaborating with new music ensembles,
exhibiting at electronic arts festivals and galleries, and serenading
Rhode Island from the trunk of their car.
Musically, the Loud Objects explore the sound of electricity,
synthesized by microchips and amplified by speakers. Writing their own
code to generate sound, they work with audio at the sample level,
without utilizing subsequent effects or filters. From silence to a
full onslaught of italo-disco, they compositionally weave shifting
sonic patterns, often juxtaposed with an accompanying acoustic
instrument or yelling audience participation, further exposing
electronic sound as a physical medium.
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