BIO

 

Born 1975, in Manhattan, NY.  Jed Miner received his BFA in Fine Art from the California Institute of the Arts where he specialized in Synaestesia and its relationship to Electronic Music. While at CalArts, Jed studied psychoacoustics with James Tenney and performed in the 20th anniversary of David Tudor’s Rainforest lV. Since graduating CalArts, he has worked with many Internationally known Artists and Composers as an Assistant.  He has studied Classical Indian Vocal music with LaMonte Young and Western Classical Music Composition Theory with Henry Threadgill and Microtonal Tuning Systems with Ben Johnston.

 

His employment history has included Shooting Documentary Videos, Music Videos, Film Title Design, Special Effects, Animation, Web Design, Archiving, Co-Managing a Homeless Shelter, Cooking on a Historic Schooner, Farming, Chinese Food Delivery and Real Estate Photography.  Currently, Jed is developing Graphic Notation and Mixed Media Painting Techniques, combining Encaustics with Tempera and Spirit Varnish.

 

 

Artist Statement

 

My artistic practice is focused on using language as a generative element in the construction of musical thought. Sound is a way of using performance as a tool to map the body's internal psychogeographic space. Sound as a found material is always connected to its environment, sometimes hidden by its surroundings and by the body itself. I am especially interested in the ideas of the relationship between mathematics and language, to associate text with volumetric weight as material.

 

Duchamp considered sound to be a readymade based on its dissimalarity to the object of it's production as illustrated by "with hidden noise". Sound itself creates new meaning when dissassociated with its source. also duchamp's three standard stoppages describe the act of creating wave motion through chance proceedures. Things unrelated to one another become connected by their sonic signatures. to be disconnected from the materials comprising the elemental sounds of language is to lose its original meaning. The acoustic image of the space of the human body is reflected in our architectural spaces.

 

 

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