Transference
Andy Paiko and Ethan Rose
November 19, 2009 – January 9, 2010

Live Music Accompaniment to Transference
Featuring saxophonists Joe Cunningham (Blue Cranes, Decemberists, Charlie Hunter) and Reed Wallsmith (Blue Cranes)
First Thursday, January 7, 6:30 – 7 pm
Free and open to the public

Through movement and light, Transference is an exploration of the material and aural properties of glass. Portland-based artists Andy Paiko (glass) and Ethan Rose (sound/composition) collaborate to create a kinetic-sound installation reinterpreting the glass armonica, a nearly forgotten instrument. Popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the armonica employed a series of glass goblets, water and friction to create a sound evoking a "singing" wine glass. This exhibition combines the strangely ethereal qualities of the armonica with the visual and physical sensations of dozens of spinning glass bowls, wired to rotate in an intentionally random sequence. Paiko and Rose worked together to select and place bowls in response to each vessel's natural aural qualities; in essence, making the glass the third collaborator in the project.

Read the essay by an essay written by East Coast musician, artist and writer Rebecca Gates, and an introduction by MoCC Curator Namita Wiggers (PDF).

Limited Edition of 20 Tuned Bell Jars with Compact Disc | $500
Created in conjunction with Transference, an exhibition created by Andy Paiko and Ethan Rose; commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR. On view November 19, 2009 – January 9, 2010. CD contains an hour long recording of Transference made on November 17, 2009 at Museum of Contemporary Craft. The top of the bell jar may be removed and intoned by wetting a finger with water and running it around the vessel’s outer edge. Each vessel and bell jar is unique, numbered, and tuned to a frequency that matches the CD recording.
Contact Dylan in The Gallery for purchasing information, 503.546.2655, dylan@MuseumofContemporaryCraft.org.

CD Recordings in screen printed package
$15 + shipping & handling
Recording of Transference, an installation by Andy Paiko and Ethan Rose
Click here to purchase online.

Watch The Making of Transference on YouTube.

Watch An Interview with Andy Paiko and Ethan Rose on YouTube.

EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMMING
ARE SUPPORTED BY:
Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation · Maribeth Collins · The Collins Foundation · John Gray Charitable Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation · John and Suzanne Bishop · PGE Foundation · Regional Arts & Culture Council · Mary Hoyt Stevenson Foundation · Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust

RELATED PROGRAMS

CRAFT CONVERSATIONS
Ethan Rose, Andy Paiko and Rebecca Gates
November 21, 2009
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IMAGES:

Andy Paiko and Ethan Rose, Transference, 2009; Glass and mixed-media sound installation; Dimensions vary; Images by Heather Zinger.