Steve Roden, Artist Who Found Innovative Ways of Seeing Sound, Dies at 59
Steve Roden, an artist whose performances, films, paintings, and sculptures found innovative ways of turning sound visual, died on September 6 at 59. His passing was announced by his family via his Instagram on Thursday.
Roden had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2017. The announcement stated that he died at his home in Los Angeles with his wife Sari at his side.
Across a diverse grouping of works in many mediums, Roden sought to explore sound not just as something that could be heard but as something that could be seen, too. Taking his cues from mid-20th-century avant-gardists like John Cage, he often enlisted eccentric sets of rules to determine how his art would manifest, both visually and aurally.
infinite grain 10: steve roden – Sonic Field
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