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t’s a contemporary art technique to take something barely noticed on the periphery of perception and focus on it. The game is to present such oblique sights or sounds or textures in such a way as to fulfill one of art’s oldest and most satisfying roles: to revitalize our perceptions, to make the world exciting and interesting again. Stephen Vitiello is known for accomplishing this and more in his sound installations. He is also an expert in perceptual dislocation, putting our ears in one place and our eyes in another (as anyone who experienced his recent installation at the Cartier Foundation in Paris can attest). In his onestar press book he has collected found texts related to sound, helping to round out a poetics as accomplished as it is visually and aurally fragmented. As Vitiello puts it (with Cornellian modesty): “Sounds Found has been a 2 month-long project to document descriptions, words and drawings that refer to sound in an evocative way, without being specifically about music. Primarily a way to pass the time each morning on the commuter train, small sections of the newspaper would be ripped out, stuck in a back pocket and hopefully not lost by the end of the day”. Who says poetry is dead? Just listen to this guy.
Richard Dailey.

Stephen Vitiello
Sounds found
Published October 2003

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