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AIR Book / Record Launch and Listening Event 

Printed Matter  May 10, 2023 6-8PM

Join us at Printed Matter Chelsea for the launch of Audra Wolowiec’s AIR, a sound score with vinyl record, published by Gravel Projects. 

The listening event will feature a live performance by Alex Waterman followed by the accompanying sounds on the record.

The 7-inch record features sonic interpretations of the score by Caroline Partamian, Alex Waterman, Sadie Siegel (Seth Weiner), and Cat Lauigan. Each artist was invited to create a musical composition in response to the commas, or breath marks, in the notational score and corresponding recordings by various breath practitioners.

More information: AIR at Printed Matter

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AIR

AIR is a multi-layered project by Audra Wolowiec, featuring a notational sound score for the breath. In music notation, a breath mark or luftpause (air-break) is a symbol for the performer to take a breath, similar to the comma in many written languages. The commas featured in this sound score were excavated from the Constitution of the United States of America, as an embodied interpretation of a politicized text. This score can be performed alone or together, as an individual or collective sounding, a chorus of breath. 

This hand bound artist edition is released with a 7-inch clear vinyl record featuring interpretations of the score and breath recordings by Cat Lauigan, Sadie Siegel, Caroline Partamian, and Alex Waterman.

Cover design and typography by Mark Foss. Record mastered by Ethan Primason.

Risograph printed cover (lucky risograph), laser cut print insert (FreeFall Laser), lathe-cut vinyl record (Little Elephant Vinyl), inkjet printed pages on Mohawk paper, hand bound with vellum wrap around, in sleeve sealed with vinyl comma. 10.75 x 8.25 inches, 32 pages, with 7-inch vinyl record Limited edition of 60

$50 SOLD OUT

Second printing available at the NY Art Book Fair 2024 

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SOUND DRAWING

This Risograph printed zine features work created during a sound drawing workshop led by Weird Babes (Caroline Partamian) and Gravel Projects (Audra Wolowiec) during the 2021 Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair where 30 participants joined internationally—together, at a distance—to create drawings in response to the prompts printed on the postcard insert: Tuning, Musical, Blurring.

Featuring sound drawings by Lizzie Ridout, Fernanda Escalera, Blanca Bercial, Amalia Petreman, Brittany Smith, C. Lavender, Emma Camell, Emma Welty, Erica Lee, Gilda Lyons and Seamus Hagen,  Jeremy P. Bushnell, Jess Rees, Luzie Kuhnke, Michael Adams, Rosaire Appel, Sal Randolph, Sarah Wysocki, s.o. O’Brien, Ethan Primason, Tess Jenkins.

Weird Babes x Gravel Projects Risograph printed in California and New York 8.5 x 5.5 inches 16 pages  Edition of 100, numbered  2022

$15 SOLD OUT

Second printing available at the NY Art Book Fair 2024 

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voiceprint (we the people), 2020 Audra Wolowiec Offset woodblock print with laser cut commas 10 x 8 inches  Edition of 10, numbered and signed on verso

The print is a visual representation of sound frequencies, from a recording of the artist reading the preamble from The United States Constitution, that begins with the phrase: we the people. The laser-cut commas from the text invite a collective pause or breath—in music notation, the comma is used as the mark for the breath, much like the pause of the written comma. This work draws attention to the most human aspect of this politicized text—the breath and bodily utterance—vocal sounds that are communicated in the absence of any recognizable language. 

These prints were created at iea (Institute for Electronic Arts) at Alfred University in 2020. 

$120 (includes shipping in the US)

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oo o o Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs and Audra Wolowiec Risograph printed sound score with notation 8.5 x 11 inches Edition of 120

Created for an outdoor performance at Compound Yucca Valley on March 19, 2022, for the exhibition Viscera/Epiphora, composer Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs will translate these aqueous oo o o’s into vocals and water harp, joined by singers Stephanie Aston and Mindy Ella Chu. The underlying sound score was created by excavating the letter o’s from pages of Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva, by Audra Wolowiec.

This print was created for the performance and sales will directly support the performers.

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Please note, a print will be included with ticket sales, to purchase a ticket for the live performance, please visit: Viscera/Epiphora Closing Event

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WAVE GAMES Mark Trecka x Audra Wolowiec

Wave Games is a publication featuring song lyrics by Mark Trecka in a visual collaboration with Audra Wolowiec. A meditation on the multivalence of the sea—a place of play, passage, and crisis—inviting polysemic interpretations.

Presented in advance of Mark Trecka’s LP Acknowledgment to be released by Whited Sepulchre Records this May.  Risograph printed, staple bound, wrap sleeve, with postcard insert 8 pages, 8.5 x 5 inches Edition of 100 2021

$15 SOLD OUT

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Collaborative reading and sounding by Karen Weiser + Karen Donnellan at Printed Matter on January 23, 2020 for the book release SOUND (Gravel Projects, 2019) featuring work by Rosaire Appel, Karen Donnellan, Elana Mann, Emmalea Russo, and Karen Weiser.

To listen is to touch a span of time —Karen Weiser

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SOUND

A publication of sounding objects, writing, and notation that engage the visual, material, and vocal aspects of sound, with work by Rosaire Appel, Karen Donnellan, Elana Mann, Emmalea Russo, and Karen Weiser, 2019.

Book release event with readings and soundings by Emmalea Russo, Karen Weiser, and Karen Donnellan Printed Matter 231 11th Ave, NYC January 23, 2020

Writing in response to this publication by Meg Shevenock -ous is featured in the ee! : issue 3, 2022 

$20 SOLD OUT

This will be available at the NY Art Book Fair 2024 

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SEMAPHORE Collaboration with Audra Wolowiec, Jesse Mejía, CHOIR, and the Jaramillo Lab at the University of Oregon. Cassette tape edition with screen printed insert:

Side 1: CHOIR performance, recording from Extradition Series (Portland, OR) Side 2: CHOIR rehearsal sessions 

Artist: Audra Wolowiec Composer: Jesse Mejía CHOIR voices: Tad Bamford, Michael Bunsen, Jin Camou, Benjamin Cleek, Sage Fisher, Liz Goltz, Carol Hickman, Justine Highsmith, Heidi Nelms, Chelsea Petrakis, Alyssa Reed- Stuewe, Anke Schuettler, Jeanne Snodgrass, Jackie Vargas, Gabi Villasenor, Allan Wilson

Special thanks to Branic Howard, Matt Hanafin, Jaramillo Lab at the University of Oregon, and the Oregon Arts Commission Percent for Art in Public Places Program. This performance series took place in 2016.

listen to Side 1: SEMPHORE performance SOLD OUT

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ON BRINGING WATER TO BOIL IN VALDIVIA Maxwell Stolkin Artist publication featuring poetic convergences between vessel shapes and cloud types, proposing methods by which archeologists might adopt pottery shard classification into new meteorological frameworks Perfect bound softcover with vellum cover and postcard insert Edition of 100, numbered 2018

5,000 years ago water was brought to boil in a clay vessel in Valdivia. Water vapor in the form of steam rose from the lip of the vessel into the hydrosphere, where it cooled and coalesced into a cloud that was forming overhead. Precipitation from this cloud likely rained down onto a nearby deposit of clay. It is possible to extract an almost endless body of data from a collection of pottery shards. —Maxwell Stolkin

Maxwell Stolkin is an interdisciplinary artist based in Quito, Ecuador.

$20

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A A SA ES (between the sea and the sea) Audra Wolowiec Handbound with screenprint cover, printed on archival paper Limited Edition of 80 2017 - 2019

Publication featuring a series of sound-texts edited from their original forms to vocally conjure the sea. From the book Andalusian Poems, written between the 9th and 11th centuries, translated from Spanish from the original Arabic, by Christopher Middleton and Leticia Garza-Falcon, 1993. SOLD OUT

Additional printing available at the NY Art Book Fair 2024, with letterpress print 

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SKRYER Audra Wolowiec + Leon Johnson Collaborative artist publication with screen-printed postcard inserts and unique ephemera, printed on archival papers. Limited edition of 10  2017

Scrying (also: "seeing”): the practice of looking into a medium to receive signals, messages, and visions. There is no uniformity in procedures. The practice has been repeatedly and independently reinvented. No single system of nomenclature can be taken as authoritative or definitive.

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