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This year the Christmas tree at the CCA's Ujazdowski Caslte entrance hall was decorated by a-i-r laboratory residents - San Francisco-based sound artists The Evolution Control Committee, who have created a sound installation that delves into the meanings that trees hold for human beings and how that carries over onto the vision of the natural world through hundreds of years of evolution. Instead of lights and shiny decorations, the artists-in-residence have bedecked the tree in sound, making reference to the evanescent murmurs of the natural world...
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The Evolution Control Committee, "Evolution versus Creationism", 2010, sound installation, 120 hours, loop, 12 radios, Caucasian fir, photo: press release
This year the Christmas tree at the CCA's Ujazdowski Caslte entrance hall was decorated by a-i-r laboratory residents - San Francisco-based sound artists The Evolution Control Committee, who have created a sound installation that delves into the meanings that trees hold for human beings and how that carries over onto the vision of the natural world through hundreds of years of evolution...
Instead of lights and shiny decorations, the artists-in-residence have bedecked the tree in sound, making reference to the evanescent murmurs of the natural world. In the official artists' statement, the Evolution Control Committee write:
The oldest living organisms on earth are trees. Some trees alive today are nearly as old as human culture itself, and some clonal trees are far, far older. By the time our ancient evolutionary ancestors crawled out of the mud, trees had already been around for hundreds of millions of years. Every year, thousands of people bring trees into their homes to decorate and celebrate the Christmas holiday. Many believe Christmas trees to be a living symbol of Christianity, yet ironically millions of trees die every year as a result of that belief. What if these dying trees were to reflect back and examine past events? What have these ancient beings experienced?
This sound installation recreates the sounds of life as the trees have heard it, from before we emerged from the waters of life to modern times. Over the course of one week, we hear the water and primordial ooze; the first stirrings of life; simple life forms, and then more complicated creatures; and finally, mankind. Like evolution itself, the sounds change gradually. While little difference is heard hour to hour, day to day the evolution becomes much more audible.
The Evolution Control Committee is a San Francisco based band that has been assembling samples into inventive new sounds to create their own brand of cut-and-paste music since 1986. For more info about The Evolution Control Committee go to: www. evolution-control.com.
The installation is on display from December 19, 2010 until December 6, 2011.
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