Shannon O'Neill

Timothy Nohe, an international sound and installation artist, will be giving a public presentation, “Sounding Spaces” for the Centre for Media Arts Innovation on August 17, 6-8 pm, at the Bon Marche studio, UTS.

From Botany Bay to Eastern State Penitentiary an 1840s era prison in Philadelphia, to an abandoned Communist period dental clinic in Prague, to the inner city factories and schools of Baltimore, Timothy Nohe has created sound installations, dance events and works of community art that address sites in compelling ways.

One reviewer noted 142 Ways to Mark Time was “outstanding, a musical piece made up of recordings of rhythmic noises performed on parts of the prison–its rusting metal gates, wooden benches, fallen plaster, broken glass, locks. The randomness has the influence of John Cage, but the music was accessible, moody and evocative as its taps and scrapes and scratchings echoed through Cellblock 10 and its cathedral-like spaces.”

In Gourd Season, Nohe has been working with kids at the revitalized Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School, a school abandoned for years due to population loss and subsequently used as a set for production of the crime drama The Wire, and then as a homeless shelter.  Kids planted canteen, long-handled dipper, birdhouse and snake gourds in a planter box, and temporary 55-gallon drums. In the fall, the fruit will be harvested for drying in the winter months. During the spring academic term, the harvested fruit will be prepared for craft projects, including: water dippers, bowls, birdhouses, musical instruments, and figurative sculptures.

In August of 2010 Nohe will exhibit Sounding Botany Bay, Sounding Gamay at Hazelhurst Art Centre, Sutherland Shire. This non-traditional documentary interweaves photography and audio composition and explores the human use of Botany Bay from the first human settlement to the present. The audio work shapes the rich voices and sounds of the Bay into an aural landscape that heightens and contrasts what is, and has been, so that the listener may experience the past and contemporary complexity of the site. Photographs and sound recordings made at locations throughout the Bay document the natural and built environments, from the wilds of Towra to container shipping terminus at Port Botany, to Kingsford Smith Airport, to the refinery at Kurnell.

Short Bio:

Timothy Nohe is an artist and educator engaging traditional and electronic media in public life and public places. His recent work has been realized in Intermedia works, sound scores for dance, and improvisational concert works.

Timothy Nohe is actively committed to collectivist work, and is a member of the International Corporation of Lost Structures, a Sydney-based creative collective, and the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles. He is an active member of a number of professional organizations, including: the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF), and the College Art Association (CAA).

Nohe is the recipient of a 2006 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award from the Australia— America Fulbright Commission.  Three Maryland State Arts Council awards and a Creative Baltimore Award have supported his work in the area of New Genre and Installation/Sculpture. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and serves his university as Faculty Senate Vice President. He is an Associate Member of the Centre for Media Arts Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.