"After 12 years of collaborating with visual artists, choreographers and other musicians, I have only just begun to create works that I feel are "my own." My interest in creating sound installations has certainly been informed by my experiences of creating soundtracks for images as well as the opportunity to work with such artists as Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Pauline Oliveros. I have found that I approach an installation by looking to create a soundtrack for that space. In the case of the World Trade Center Residency, I found that the sounds already existed but were inaccessible - the sound of thunder, wind, airplanes, helicopters, the sway of the building had all been expertly shut-out by thick windows which would not open. It became my task to bring those sounds back into the room and in a sense, to bring it to life. I am interested in the physicality of sound and its’ potential to define the shape, feel and color of a room. I am also interested in exploring how people receive sound and to what extent I may create a work, with no visual component, and offer an environment in which a gallery or museum viewer will be enticed into listening with the attention that they would give to a visual or audio-visual work."

Selected Bibliography

Cooke, Lynne. "Interview with Tony Oursler, Stephen Vitiello and Constance DeJong". Tony Oursler, Catalogue Kunstverein Hannover , 1999

Khazam, Rahma. "Stephen Vitiello’s art of noises are a moveable feast" The Wire, July 1999