John Hudak

John Hudak was born in 1958. He has been interested in sound and music from the age of four when he began to play a variety of instruments. He studied video, photography, creative writing and dance and then began to create taped soundtracks for solo performance art pieces.

Most recently, he has concentrated on sound, particularly natural sounds. Hudak's sound work focuses on the minimalism and repetition of sounds below the usual threshold of hearing, sounds that are filtered out or considered non-musical. These sounds are recorded, deconstructed and processed, their rhythms and textures being the basis for aural manipulations. Hudak has recorded CD's based on the sounds of underwater insects; on the vibrations and static sounds recorded on the bridge; and on his mother's voice on an answering machine.

Hudak has done projects for the turbulence website, an online gallery of web-based artwork (http://www.turbulence.org), and with Steve Bradley, on the manray project (http://www.slack.net/~jhbk). Selected live performances include Klangpark sound festival at the Rotterdam Museum of Art, The Netherlands, 1995; transmissions 002 sound festival, Carborro, North Carolina, May 1999 (www.transmit.org); and with Jason Lescalleet, a performance for the release of like seeing, and then again not, First Church of Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, January 2000.