Michele Beck & Jorge Calvo [usa] - 440.0 Hz, 3:00, 2004

440.0 Hz. was shot with a spy camera that was placed inside the mouth. Beck and Calvo then walked down the busy streets in New York City and recorded what they encountered. The change in audio from breath to pitch as the mouth opens and closes creates a bridge from the interiority of thought and body function to the exteriority of the individual as part of public life. 440.0 Hz is a standard reference pitch, for example a tone that is used by symphonies for tuning- the ultimate referent.
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Michele Beck (USA) and Jorge Calvo (Costa Rica) are multidisciplinary artists working with video, sound and performance. Michele and Jorge met in New York City in December 1998 and have been working together ever since. They are recipients of the Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant and an SOS grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Michele and Jorge have shown their work nationally and internationally at venues including The ICA in London, The Blaffer Gallery at The Art Museum at the University of Texas Museum, Galerie Chez Valentin in Paris, France, The Bronx Museum, and The Queens Museum of Art.

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