In the Air - a sound installation by Jason Kahn

Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council & Crafts Museum, New Delhi present In the Air -a sound installation by Jason Kahn, a sound artist and musician from Switzerland. [dated November 2010]

Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council & Crafts Museum, New Delhi present In the Air -a sound installation by Jason Kahn, a sound artist and musician from Switzerland on Friday 12 November 2010 at 3:30 pm at Bhuta Gallery, Crafts Museum, Bhairon Road, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi 110001

The installation will be open from 13 – 30 November 2010 10:00 am 5:00 pm (Monday closed)

In the Air
The piece is a sound installation of a body of radios distributed more or less evenly to fill the installation space. By moving through the exhibition the visitor will experience rich variations in phasing occurring between the radios and the various acoustical reflections that are cast by static waves.

Jason Kahn
Jason Kahn is a sound artist and a musician whose work is a mix of electronic and acoustic sound sources, produced with minimal percussion, a laptop or an analogue synthesizer. In recent years he has created several sound installations using field recordings and sound waves as concrete forms. He has held exhibitions and concerts in museums, galleries, art spaces, festivals and clubs throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Turkey and South Africa. He has also produced sound pieces for film, dance and radio. In 1998 he started the label ‘cut’.

Jason Kahn is in Delhi on an Artist-in-Residence programme at Sarai from 1 - 30 November 2010. The residency is supported by Pro Helvetia New Delhi and Sarai.

The installation in the Bhuta Gallery by Jason Kahn is coordinated by Ish S, an Indian sound artist and musician who had a brief research residency in Zürich, Switzerland in June 2010.

Web links: cut.fm jasonkahn.dfekt.org http://harmonyseries.blogspot.com/2009/08/jason-kahn.html