In the language of acoustics, “early reflections” are the first echoes of a sound that return to a listener. Early reflections are critical to defining a space’s characteristic reverberation: they give us an intuitive, often unconscious sense of the size and shape of the spaces we inhabit, as well as the position and movement of objects within them.

This exhibition traces an itinerary of Graydon’s work on the relation of sound and architecture. The show places special emphasis on the structures—spatial, social and imaginative—produced by the interplay of voicing and listening. The artist has long been fascinated with sound’s role in constructing spaces, and the performative energy required to maintain their fragile integrity. His works pose questions that complicate the separation of looking and listening: how a call can articulate a space, but also how other projections—of light, but also of will, or of an idea—can articulate a material, while simultaneously rendering it ambiguous, toward a state between presence and absence. With this show he weaves those questions together with a consideration of how the future and the past conduct one another, and the possibilities of authorship beyond the singular voice.

The exhibition draws together several related bodies of work, including:

Untitled (plate tectonics)

Stadtpartitur

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