Steve Roden

Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, and performance.

Roden's working process uses various forms of specific notation (words, musical scores, maps, etc.) and translates them through self invented systems into scores; which then influence the process of painting, drawing, sculpture, and sound composition. these scores, rigid in terms of their parameters and rules, are also full of holes for intuitive decisions and left turns. The inspirational source material becomes a kind of formal skeleton that the abstract finished works are built upon.

In the visual works, translations of information such as text and maps, become rules and systems for generating visual actions such as color choices, number of elements, and image building. In the sound works, singular source materials such as objects, architectural spaces, and field recordings, are abstracted through humble electronic processes to create new audio spaces, or 'possible landscapes'. The sound works present themselves with an aesthetic roden describes as "lower case'' - sound concerned with subtlety and the quiet activity of listening.

• 1993 - So Delicate And Strangely Made [as In Be Tween Noise] - 320 Kbps
• 1995 - Humming Endlessly In The Hush [as In Be Tween Noise] - 320 Kbps
• 1997 - Translations & Articulations - 320 Kbps
• 1997 - Crop Circles - 320 Kbps
• 1997 - Splint (The Soul Of Wood) [as In Be Tween Noise] - 320 Kbps
• 1998 - Lamp (Within-Without The Skin) [as In Be Tween Noise] - 320 Kbps
• 1999 - The Opening Of The Field [with Brandon LaBelle] - 192 Kbps
• 1999 - The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm [with Brandon LaBelle] - 320 Kbps
• 1999 - View - 320 Kbps
• 1999 - Chair (A Subscape Of Resonance) [as In Be Tween Noise] - 320 Kbps
• 1999 - The Radio [as In Be Tween Noise] - 320 Kbps
• 1999 - Untitled [with Small Cruel Party & Toy Bizarre] - 320 Kbps
• 2000 - Four Possible Landscapes - 320 Kbps
• 2000 - (For) - 320 Kbps
• 2001 - Forms Of Paper - 320 Kbps
• 2001 - Schindler House - 256 Kbps
• 2001 - Japan [with Bernhard Günter] - 320 Kbps
• 2002 - Winter Couplet - 224 Kbps
• 2002 - (For Morton Feldman) [with Richard Chartier & Bernhard Günter] - 320 Kbps
• 2002 - Le Chemin Du Paradis [with Francisco López] - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - Shimmer/Flicker/Waver/Quiver [with Jason Kahn] - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - Resonant Cities - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - Broken. Distant. Fragrant. [with Tu M'] - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - Speak No More About The Leaves - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - Light Forms (Music For Light Bulbs And Churches) - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - Three Roots Carved To Look Like Stones - 320 Kbps
• 2005 - Transmissions (Voices Of Objects And Skies) - 320 Kbps
• 2005 - Ear(th) [with Ann Polsenberg] - 320 Kbps
• 2005 - Soundwalk - 192 Kbps
• 2005 - Oder Delias Or Butterflies - 256 Kbps
• 2005 - Airforms - 320 Kbps
• 2007 - Cosmic Debris Volume II [with My Cat Is An Alien] - 192 Kbps
• 2007 - Dark Over Light Earth [with Jacob Danziger] - 148 kbps
• 2007 - Amnesia (Live In Berlin, 2004) - 320 Kbps
• 2007 - 9-Sided Room - 96 Kbps
• 2007 - One Stone - 192 Kbps
• 2007 - Performance At The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, September 2007* [with Stephen Vitiello] - 192 Kbps
• 2008 - For You This Sun - 128 Kbps
• 2008 - Stars Of Ice - 320 Kbps
• 2009 - Ecstasy Showered Its Petals With The Full Peal Of The Bells - 320 Kbps
• 2010 - Lichtung [with Rutger Zuydervelt (a.k.a. Machinefabriek) & Sabine Bürger] - 320 Kbps
• 2011 - Proximities - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Lichtung [with Machinefabriek] - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - A Big Circle Drawn With Little Hands - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Not A Leaf Remains As It Was [with Steve Peters] - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Berlin Fields - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Flower & Water - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Suite Nuit [with Frank Bretschneider] - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - The Spaces Contained in Each [with Stephen Vitiello] - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - water in the hollow eyes of the blue, finally [with Glenn Bach] - 320 Kbps 

* - Tracks: 01. Chinati Performance (38:10), 02. Chinati Performance (Rehearsal) (30:58)

See also MOSS project (320 Kbps) and 60 Sound Artists Protest The War compilation (320 Kbps) with Steve's participation.

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