Micah Silver’s work often finds its balance in the irreconcilable fascinations of time perception and a closeness to the sensuality of sound. His work is constructed as a site of self-examination, creating frictions between the perceptual bounds of practical society and the optimistically impractical possibilities suggested by the work.
Shows have been mounted by the Jersey City Museum, Artspace New Haven, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, The James Joyce Centre, Dublin and others. Silver’s scores and text has been published in Nuke Magazine (Paris), The Journal of the Valkenberg Hermitage (Berlin), and will accompany a DVD by Diapason Gallery for Sound (NYC). He recently completed a 12-channel sound piece commissioned by the MATA Festival (April 08) and is working on a large-scale installation for Mass MoCA (March 09) and a collaborative, evening length performance/installation with poet Bethany Ides (Fall 09).
Silver was born in 1980 in North Carolina but grew up in a small town in western Massachusetts. He studied music and sound art at Wesleyan University with Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton, and Ron Kuivila and privately with Raphé Malik, Lewis Spratlan, and Earle Brown. In addition to his work as an artist, Silver is music/sound curator for the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
