Listener is an oscilloscope that displays the sound waves it hears in the room. It is made from a microphone and amplifier wired to a modified CRT television, housed in a custom glass case. What’s going on in there?
Category Archives: Art
Clock (2024)
Clock is a sound installation shown in the Cube Gallery at Alfred University in winter, 2024. Five bottles blown from black glass slowly fill with water. Listeners can turn on a blower by pressing a switch on the wall labeled “Yes,” which activates the bottles.
The resulting sound is intense, creating swirling harmonies and dissonances that vary wildly depending on where the listener stands.
What If (2022)
Performance at Trap Door Theatre in Chicago
An experimental horror play exploring intimacy and betrayal. Written by Suz Evans and directed by Skye Fort, featuring an adaptive live score written and performed by Charlie Manion. Featuring Cat Evans and David Lovejoy
2022
Hot Shop Music (2021)
Hot Shop Music translates glassblowing technique to music.
Combining the ways glassblowers communicate technical information with compositional conventions in jazz and new music, Matt McAllister and Charlie Manion wrote a modular score following Pearl Dick’s glassblowing and performed it with a chamber orchestra at Firebird Community Arts in September of 2021.
Featuring musicians Matt McAllister, Chihsuan Yang, Wyatt Waddell, Marcus Reese, and Artie Black, conducted by Charlie Manion
The first iteration of this performance, similarly featuring a live, adaptive musical accompaniment to a blown glass demonstration, occurred at the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio in 2017
GoGoGolem (2021)
GoGoGolem is an interactive sculpture from Havruta, a show of collaborative Jewish art. Read about the show in ArtForum!
GoGoGolem
2021
Izah Ransohoff and Charlie Manion
Wood, broom, brass hinges, rope & pulley, carpet
5-½’ x 4-½’
Rubin Vase (2021)
Rubin Vase
2021
blown and sandblasted glass
10” x 6” x 6”
Mood Organs (2020-2022)
Blown glass, modified cassette loops, tape players, found wood, voice
Three quiet ambient loops harmonize with each other. Listeners are asked to write down how each loop makes them feel when heard up close.
(Audio loop archive: https://charliemanion.com/2021/01/19/2021-mood-juice/)
14” x 14” x 28” ea
2020-2022
Time is a Spinning Sign? (2017/2019)
Time is a Spinning Sign?
2017
pvc, motor, wood, paint, sharpie
31″ x 9″ x 6”
Audio: Blooms. Charlie Manion, 2019. Looped voice.
Gramophone (2019)
Gramophone
2019
blown glass, modified cassette loop, tape player, plumbing hardware
14” x 14” x 28”
Biscuit People (2017)
Biscuit People
2017
Pen on receipt paper
5″ x 3″ ea
Candid drawings of customers deciding what to order while I worked the register of a biscuit shop.