Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, ’Spell Casting’

Filmmaker and editor: Johann Rashid April 12, 2016 Digital video, TRT 00:23:31 Courtesy of the artist In conjunction with the exhibition ’Atmosphere for Enjoyment: Harry Bertoia’s Environment for Sound,’ MAD commissioned New York–based musicians Lizzi Bougatsos and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe to create sound and video recordings with Sonambient sculptures. ’Atmosphere for Enjoyment’ explores Bertoia’s sounding or tonal sculptures. Collectively called Sonambient, these are works made of metal rods that make lush, resonant sounds when struck. Beginning in 1968, Bertoia began setting up an eighteenth-century stone barn on his property in Barto, Pennsylvania, to house and record these works, and this is where Bougatsos and Lowe made their recordings.