Work samples
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Zero Feet Zero Inches (2020)A datamosh video employing materials sourced from historic footage at archive.org. This piece features a performance of Variations V by John Cage, with the Merce Cunningham Company and Apollo footage from NASA. Sound created on a modular synthesizer, using recordings of John Cage as foundational elements. This work is linked to Bell labs Mosh through the common thread of Stan Vanderbeek, who created imagery for the original Variations V performance, which was broadcast in West Germany. Video and sound synthesis by Timothy Nohe.
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ART/SOUND/Now: Walters Sculpture Court - Live August 22, 2019 by Timothy NoheLive recording of a site responsive work produced for two sopranos choreographed through the Sculpture Court of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, August 22, 2019. Bonnie Lander and Allison Clendaniel, sopranos. Electro-acoustic music for two bluetooth speakers, Timothy Nohe.
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Biosphere (2019) by Timothy NoheElectro-acoustic music for LucidBeings Dance. This score was composed and recorded by Timothy Music, blending the soprano voice of Dharna Noor, field recordings, and electronic music elements composed and sequenced by the artist.
About Timothy
Timothy Nohe's artistic process is rooted in a DIY ethos, tracing back to the early days of Punk and the hacker culture, where intellectual discoveries were shared, and collaboration thrived through hands-on approaches in problem-solving, distribution, and presentation. This connection to communities emphasizes direct public engagement both inside and outside traditional art spaces, fostering a commitment to collaboration, improvisation, and abstraction in music and the visual arts. Based in… more
Speculative Flora
An exploration of speculative plant forms using artificial intelligence natural language image generators
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Sweet pea encircled 1Sweet pea encircled 1
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Sweet pea encircled 2Sweet pea encircled 2
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Spiral Sweet PeaSpiral Sweet Pea
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Thriving sweet peasThriving sweet peas
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Black LocustBlack Locust
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Apple blossom tessellated gridApple blossom tessellated grid
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Lemon blossom reposeLemon blossom repose
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Asymmetrical poison ivy and berriesAsymmetrical poison ivy and berries
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Magnolia Grid 2Magnolia Grid 2
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Magnolia Grid 1Magnolia Grid 1
Most Curious Sojourners
Artificial intelligence image engines now allow artists to imagine renderings that proceed from simple text prompts. For instance: "/image small red fox leaps over a wooden fence, in the style of a Gainsborough painting." This still somewhat "alien" artmaking technology has been applied to produce the images presented here. These alien sojourners from the fictive past are visiting from an unpredictable future where neural networks will reshape our world and experiences as humans.
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Sojourner 1Permanent pigment print, 12" x 12" framed Speculative artificial intelligence rendering
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Sojourner 2Permanent pigment print, 12" x 12" framed Speculative artificial intelligence rendering
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Sojourner 3Permanent pigment print, 12" x 12" framed Speculative artificial intelligence rendering
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A lighter than air craft, which silently drifted over a wheat-field and fled with dispatchPermanent pigment print, 12" x 12" framed Speculative artificial intelligence rendering
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There, in the night, aglow and radiant in silencePermanent pigment print, 12" x 12" framed Speculative artificial intelligence rendering
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The drovers and farmer folk could attest that this was no apparitionPermanent pigment print, 12" x 12" framed Speculative artificial intelligence rendering
Zero Feet, Zero Inches
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Zero Feet Zero Inches (2020)A datamosh video employing materials sourced from historic footage at archive.org. This piece features a performance of Variations V by John Cage, with the Merce Cunningham Company and Apollo footage from NASA. Sound created on a modular synthesizer, using recordings of John Cage as foundational elements. This work is linked to Bell labs Mosh through the common thread of Stan Vanderbeek, who created imagery for the original Variations V performance, which was broadcast in West Germany. Video and sound synthesis by Timothy Nohe.
Bell Labs Mosh (2018)
Installed in the Electronic Gallery, Salisbury University, July 16 - October 25, 2018.
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Bell Labs Mosh (2018)Bell Labs Mosh (2018), total running time 05:12. Part of a video series that examines the early information age, this industrial film was produced at Bell Labs and represents early experiments in rendering human speech and the "Poem Fields" computer animation work of Stan Vanderbeek and Kenneth Knowlton. Many of the inventions predicted within this video area a reality and commonplace, as accessible as our mobile phone. The original industrial film was made available under Creative Commons license, at archive.org. This data-moshing work was created while in residence at Signal Culture, Owego, NY. Installed in the Electronic Gallery, Salisbury University, July 16 - October 25, 2018. Exhibited at Electronic Gallery, Salisbury University, July 16 - October 25, 2018. Screened as interstitital video during Livewire 9 concerts, October 26-27, 2018, Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall, UMBC.
At or Near the Melting Point (2017-2018)
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At or Near the Melting Point, (2017-2018), chocolate dipped TV remotesAt or Near the Melting Point, (2017-2018), chocolate dipped TV remotes
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At or Near the Melting Point, (2017-2018), chocolate dipped TV remotesAt or Near the Melting Point, (2017-2018), chocolate dipped TV remotes
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At or Near the Melting Point, (2017-2018), chocolate dipped TV remotesAt or Near the Melting Point, (2017-2018), chocolate dipped TV remotes
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At or Near the Melting Point (2017), installation view
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At or Near the Melting Point (2017), installation view
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At or Near the Melting Point (2017), installation view
Light Well for James Turell (2017)
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Light Well for James Turrell, (2017)Installation view of one of four CRT analog video monitors.
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Light Well for James Turrell, (2017)View of four CRT analog video monitors, analog modular audio and video synthesizer, powered audio speakers reproducing the audio patch.
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Light Well for James Turrell, (2017)View from above of the discrete space where the system was installed.
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Light Well for James Turrell, (2017)Video color transforms over a long time cycle, mixing chroma and value to a central "well."
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Light Well for James Turrell (2017)Close up of the analog modular sound and video synthesizer patch cable network.
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Light Well for James Turrell, (2017)Excerpt of Light Well for James Turrell (2017), analog video and sound synthesis. Installed at the Kohl Gallery at Washington College with four matched CRTs, November 9 - December 15, 2017.
Entr’acte-Interact (2017)
Electron Drawing – Visual Music (2017)
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Electron Drawing - Visual Music, Light City Documentation April 7, 2017Documentation of Electron Drawing - Visual Music, installed at Light City Baltimore, Maryland, USA. March 30 - April 8, 2017. Analog modular synthesizer, two wireless infrared sensors in lasercut interfaces, vintage hacked Vectrex game machine, HD camera, stereo PA system and LED wall.
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Electron Drawing - Visual Music, Light CityView of the LED Wall "Jumbotron"
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Electron Drawing - Visual Music, Light CityKids interacting with the wireless infrared sensors to shape the sound and drawings.
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Electron Drawing - Visual Music, Light CityShaping sound and drawings in real time with a touchless interface.
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Electron Drawing - Visual Music, Light CityBehind the scenes at Light City, this view shows the synth, camera and Vectrex game console that displayed the live "electron drawings"
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Screen capture, Electron Drawing - Visual MusicEvolving drawing captured from screen of the Vectrex.
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Electron Drawing - Visual Music, Light CityScreen capture
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Electron Drawing - Visual Music, Light CityScreen capture of Electron Drawing - Visual Music
Matter, Energy, Human
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Matter, Energy, Human (2016-17) by Timothy NoheMatter, Energy, Human (repertory version), Deep Vision Dance Company, Nicole A. Martinell, director and choreographer. Commissioned original 40 and 20 minute dance score composed by Timothy Nohe, scored for friction percussion, boy soprano, analog and wavetable synthesizers, e-bow guitar, narrators, and samples. Performers - Timothy Nohe: analog and digital synthesizers, sample sequencing, shortwave, ebow guitar; Shelly Purdy: friction percussion; Ruskin Nohe-Moren, boy soprano. Tour dates include: Theater Project, Baltimore, April 15-17, 2016; Artscape, Baltimore, MD July 17, 2016; Community Education Center Philadelphia, PA, February 18th and 19th, 2017; Atlas Performing Arts Center (Intersections Festival), Washington, DC, February 25th and 26th, 2017; Baltimore Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD, March 17th and 18th, 2017.
CosmonautOp (2016)
Installed:
Architectural Video Screen at Wall Academic Center, Van Every Smith Galleries at Davidson College, Davidson, NC, November 15, 2018 - February 6, 2019.
Screened at:
Livewire 9, UMBC, October 27 - 28, 2018, concert interstitial video, Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall. The Agency of Art: Visual Arts @ 50, University Art Gallery, Mandeville Center, Univerity of California San Diego, April 12 – May 17, 2018. Vigil, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, April 30 and Worlds in Collusion at Artscape 2016.
Exhibited:
Electronic Gallery, Salisbury University, July 16 - October 25, 2018. Kohl Gallery, Washington College, November 9 - December 15, 2017.
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CosmonautOpCosmonautOp screen capture.
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CosmonautOp-02.jpgScreen capture.
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CosmonautOp (2016)
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CosmonautOp (2016)
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CosmonautOp (2016)Screen cap, CosmonautOp
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CosmonautOp (2016)Color, TRT 20:00 with original sound score by the artist. Analog video synthesis with digital compositing. Scaled to HD video, 720P.