Thessia Machado is a visual\/sound artist, instrument builder and performer whose work investigates the physicality of sound and its effect on our perception of space. In sculptures and interactive installations that have a real-time, live component, the expressive potential is still active and changeable.<\/p>\n
As a extension of this practice, and under the moniker\u00a0link<\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong>she also performs electronic and electro-acoustic experimental music with hand-made and modified instruments.<\/p>\n Thessia\u2019s installations and video pieces have been exhibited in New York, London, Philadelphia, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, Berlin and Athens. She has been awarded residencies at Homesession, Barcelona, the NARS Foundation, NY, I-Park, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Vermont Studio Center and is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Experimental Television Center and The Bronx Museum.<\/p>\n \/\/ \/\/<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ve always been interested in the mechanical aspects of things: how things work and are affected by other things \u2013 interactivity of a tangible sort.
\nWorking with sound allows me to think of the air in which we all swim as yet another malleable and responsive, physical material. It gets pushed around by sound waves and it, in turn, pushes in on our bodies and the spaces we are in, both defining and permeating these boundaries. As it bounces and is deflected by the different materials and objects, sound changes and acquires a new character that is particular to the place and time of the event \u2013 both time- and site-specific.
\nA non-hierarchical approach to sound (isn\u2019t it all noise?) and its organizational principles (this doesn\u2019t sound like music!) allows for the uncovering and exposing of latent patterns and systems that hide in the unremarkable. A way to welcome the incidental rhythms and juxtapositions from the myriad devices and noises we are all surrounded by. The aim is to play with and explore simple and ingenious ways to extract the most poetic content with the least imposition onto the materials.
\nThe sound of physics.
\nMechanical and electronic.
\nRubber bands and sine waves.<\/p>\n