Viv Corringham

 Skywalks, a video based on walks through the skyways of Minneapolis, was selected for the Hering Video Edition 2, a festival of video by sound artists, and shown in four venues in Germany. Photo by Peter Hoelscher.

Hering video

A permanent installation with regularly changing sound-works. Currently featuring "Skywalks", a seven-minute sonic portrait of Minneapolis' skyway system.

Black Dog Cafe

An installation using boxes, voice/soundscape recordings and found objects based on an artist residency for New Adventures in Sound Art.

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A sound and vidoe installation with found objects as part of Documente-Se! Festival (Document Yourself!)

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A sound installation of white boxes, each containing a unique composition heard by raising the lid. Objects inside the boxes were based on what was found on walks with local people in different parts of the US during a 2006 McKnight Composer Fellowship year.

Visitors were invited to open and close lids as they wished, making new and changing compositions from the overlapping mix of sounds.

Rochester Art Center

Zonzo Spyker is Viv Corringham’s avatar and part of The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, performing at events screened in Europe and North America.

The three dimensional virtual environment of Second Life is both the home-base and the contextual base for the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse. The Orchestra is a tool for performing and a vehicle for experimentation, and works with a growing repertoire of compositions made especially for it and for this virtual environment.

Two sound/video installations with found objects, displayed at the Meridian Gallery.

Works by Vito Acconci, Andre Avelas, Betsey Biggs, Viv Corringham, Barbara Ess, Christina Kubisch, Abinadi Meza, Tristan Perich, & Seth Price. Curated by Alan Licht.

The Headphones Show highlights innovative artworks that incorporate headphones as a critical element. Utilizing sound art, digital projection, and interactive artwork, these local and international artists explore the auditory sensation of inner space, as well as the power and nuance of sound.

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Walks with villagers in the mountains of northern Portugal, as part of a residency at Binaural Media. The resulting recordings and found objects were displayed as an open air installation.

A four-speaker installation in Galata Evi - the old English prison.

Galata Perform

A sound installation of ten white boxes, each containing a unique composition heard by raising the lid. Objects inside the boxes were based on what was found on walks with local people in different parts of the US during a 2006 McKnight Composer Fellowship year.

Visitors were invited to open and close lids as they wished, making new and changing compositions from the overlapping mix of sounds.

An installation featuring the composition “At The End Of The Road” and a display of found objects based on a two-week residency in Grand Marais.

Audio sample

A lecture/ performance at the festival to present the work “In The Machine” which derived from work with students and recordings made during a composer residency at CSUF.

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Curated by Viv Corringham and Scott Stulen, the inaugural annual Headphone Festival at the Rochester Art Center was the first event of its kind in the Midwest and perhaps the United States. Experienced entirely through headphones, musicians (including Viv Corringham) performed original works, ranging from field recordings, live improvisation and samples, plus video clips. The audience brought their own headphones.

A collaboration with leading Irish sound artist Danny McCarthy resulting from a two-month artist residency. More than 100 people from Cobh ranging from eight to eighty years of age were asked the question: If you had a magic wand, how would you transform your town? Their answers and the unique sounds of the town were combined with improvisations and compositions to create an engaging sound installation with a built-in random factor to ensure that no two visits sounded the same.  In an associated walking performance, 8 people carried the sounds through Cobh, making the town whisper with voices as this living installation took to the streets.

An audio-exhibition based on walks with six Minnesotans. 12 different soundworks were audible through headphones, each piece combining conversation, singing and environmental sound.  Objects found on each walk were displayed in evidence bags.

This offsite installation project was located at 4 listening posts in different sites around Cobh.  The project was the culmination of interactions with residents of Cobh during an artist residency in April, 2005. The work combined personal reminiscences with other audio clips giving the audience a chance to participate in their own experience of these shadow walks.

An artist residency in October 2004 led to the creation of audio-walks in which individuals could follow a route that had been selected by a Cork resident. Each walker received a portable CD player, a route guide and a set of plastic bags in which they could collect objects on the journey. They were also invited to contribute their response to the walk. Responses and found objects were displayed, creating an expanding visual exhibition. The audio-walks are archived in the public library, Cork.

A sound sculpture based on the sonic potential of drainpipes for both listening through and sounding, built in collaboration with Dave Laurence and commissioned by 6000 Chairs, a 3-day festival held in the grounds of Crystal Palace Park, London. Audiences were encouraged to interact with the sculpture. It was re-commissioned for the Colourscape Music Festival in 2005, and now resides permanently in Exeter, UK, at a school for the blind.