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Works from 2008

Aurora

Color, NS, 2:55, Super 8 transfer to video. A collaboration by David Halsell and Ryan Horvath.

A Super 8 film camera was dropped from the Aurora Bridge in Seattle, WA on 9 March 2008. The film record traces a vision of the 167-foot plunge from the bridge deck to the water below.

Subviola

Subviola was an audio collaboration between Hilmar Bjarnason and David W. Halsell that explored the intersections and boundaries of culture, noise, and place by manipulating field recordings from urban and rural spaces of the American Midwest. Railroad locomotives, country meadows, industrial spaces, and Appalachian folk musicians are transformed into washes of protracted and convolving sounds punctuated by disjointed rhythms and vocalizations. This work saught to reflect the artists' experiences while living in the economically depressed post-industrial "rust belt" and the widespread disillusion in the myths of American industrial and social history. The ironic title for the recordings, No Defects, comes from the most common radio messages in the automated system of status reports of railroad lines.

No Defects (2005-8)