Lauren Weinger

Lauren Weinger composes image based electro-acoustic sound designs. She has performed widely in San Francisco, CA, includingThe Red Wood Forest, The Exploratorium Museum, Theater Artaud, a Victorian house, Yerba Beuna Center for the Arts, Cowell Theater, and Fort Point. Her performances also reach an international audience at the Festival d'Avignon, France, The Walker Art Center, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Festival d'Arles, France, Whitney Museum, CN, NY Central Park Conservancy, Jacob's Pillow Festival, MA, The Joffrey Ballet, Chicago & New York Film Festivals, American Film Institute, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, NC, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Tryon Center for Visual Art, NC, P.S. 122, NYC, among others.

She is currently Director of the Sound program at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

“My work is site motivated, the vocabulary changes in response to the constraints and material of a given place. The memory of sounds no longer heard and ‘the ability of recorded sound to evoke memory and 'bring back' places that no longer exist.’

The environments represented in this set are portraits and places including a duet with a woman in a 500 gallon tank of water, a walk through a mattress factory, lying on the marble floor of a showroom as it opens, and a duet with a solo aerialist in the Cloisters of the Palace of the Popes in Avignon, France.

My work is primarily based on processed acoustic sounds gathered at the site, or of the object being portrayed. In performance and installation I diffuse and layer sounds using three dimensional multiple channel and speaker projection extending in some cases to forty speakers through spaces up to a quarter mile long and sixty feet high.”