In 1999, Stephen Vitiello was given a residency on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center (tower one). Gazing at the lights of New York City, he decided he wanted to translate sights into sound. To do so he simply used a photocell to record the luminosity of various points around him and through the windows. A computer assigned sound parameters to the collected data. This interesting process could have generated arid music if applied to the letter. Luckily, Vitiello had something else in mind. He t...   [ read more ]

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Stephen Vitiello is a sound/media artist based in Richmond, Virginia, and this is his seventh full-length release -- his first for Sub Rosa. Vitiello is an established name in electroacoustic sound experimentation, having collaborated with artists, musicians and choreographers including Pauline Oliveros, Tony Oursler, Constance De Jong, Nam June Paik, Eder Santos, Scanner, Andrew Deutsch, Yasunao Tone, Frances-Marie Uitti, Dara Birnbaum and Jem Cohen, etc. This piece is a work in progress evolving from the...   [ read more ]

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On Stephen Vitiello's 2007 album, he salutes another artist from an older generation, outsider sculptor Donald Judd, whose various wood and metal sculptures in the town of Marfa, TX form the basis of this work. Consisting of seven pieces altogether, Listening to Donald Judd finds Vitiello working with various sonic elements taken directly from recordings on the surface of the sculptures themselves, as well as from the surrounding scrub-brush countryside as well as passing trains, one of which s...   [ read more ]

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