Tom Gurin uses sound to explore sculpture, space, and three-dimensional forms. He was a 2023-24 resident-laureate at the Cité internationale des arts, and the recipient of a Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, which supported his year-long sound art project inspired by French bells and bell towers. Previously, he was a Fulbright-Harriet Hale Woolley Scholar, and is the only to person to have completed residencies in both music and visual arts at the United States Foundation in Paris. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in multimedia composition at the Haute École de Musique de Genève.
POV: Your connection is unstable.
“POV: Your connection is unstable” (2024) for violin, percussion, electronics, and video. There is also an interactive element; the audience was invited to bring their phones and install the Zoom app to participate.
The piece is inspired by remote and virtual interactions, sounds, and images.
Corps Résonants
“Corps Résonants” is a multimedia, touch-sensitive installation by Tom Gurin. It uses the body as a physical filter for a feedback loop that resonates through the floor. A Max patch generates responsive video in real time using Jitter. The work aims to blur our sonic, visual, and tactile (i.e. physical) perceptions of vibration through the human body. It was presented at the Cité internationale des arts (Paris) in November 2023, at The Film Gallery (Paris) in February 2024, and at the Haute école de musique de Genève in February 2024.
Bas-Relief
“Bas-Relief” is an interactive sound art performance for audience, tape, and projection by Tom Gurin and Owen Moran. Watch and listen to a version of it (ten channels rendered to stereo for demonstration purposes) below. Headphones or high-quality speakers are recommended:
Feedback Instruments
Sound Sculptures
Music x Architecture
From Ophelia (winner, Prix Marion Tournon Branly for music composition x architecture):
Reverie
For Rêverie; installed in the art gallery of the United States Foundation in Paris in June 2022.
