W H I T E B O X :: Sinfonia 60

“Sinfonia 60” is a composition for live performance that generates an exchange between raw film footage and the subsequent sound design elements created for the silent film stock. Raw, unedited dailies from various film scoring projects for which sound design cells needed to be created (room tones, foleys, sounds with a particular emphasis on mechanical events) are collated, edited non-synced and projected in the space as visual accompaniment for the live audio mix performed. The various sound files created for the film footage presented are instrumented into multi layers, abstracted, filtered and processed from laptop. In addition to these audio files, modular analog synthesizers perform additional filtering and oscillator based assimilations that reanimate the sound design elements, creating a condition that blurs the distinction between acoustic foley and synthesized emulation. This process cultivates a fluctuating time-line between visual-event, generative sound and resynthesis.

Ed Tomney is a composer and visual artist who has worked extensively with modular analog synthesis, electro-acoustic sound design, Foley art and tape composition. His early electronic groups ("The Last Gasp Ensemble", "ENVLP") and the robotic ensemble ("The Mechanical Guitar Orchestra”) performed in the early New York downtown scene and in concert venues throughout the U.S. and Europe. He has designed computer programs for composition (“Radar”, “Reggie”) that create a dialog with the composer to formulate systemic chance-operation techniques. The majority of his recorded works merge specifically instrumented sound archives with modular synthesis and automated acoustic sculptures. He has composed for film, broadcast, dance and designed radio works for ORF's "Kunstradio" series. Some of his recordings can be found on Mute Records, ROIR, Tellus, Tetractys/S and Tzadik. He currently exhibits mechanized sound-environments in galleries and public spaces, performs with fellow composer Ron Kuivila in a project known as “Sophisticated Filters" and performs with the analog synthesis collective "Analogos" at Diapason.

WHITE BOX is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. Annual exhibitions are supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, with additional annual organization funds from The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Lily Auchincloss Foundation.