Histories of the Present, 2019
Commissioned by the Civic Arts Commission of the City of Berkeley.
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Selected Works
SPECTRUM, 2016
Commissioned by Monkey Town LA.
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mas gestos y mas caras, 2016
Collaboration with Rafa Esparza for Made in LA, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA.
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A Simple Procedure, 2015
2 x CD / 7″ Lath Cut with letter press packaging — Estuary Ltd.
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Please Pick Up, 2013
Remix for Pinkcourtesyphone — IO Sound (CA).
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SCALE, 2012
Render: New Construction in Video Art, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA.
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Fata Morgana — CD, 2012
CD — Murmur Records (JP).
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Fata Morgana, 2011
Commissioned by Fulcrum Arts for the AxS Festival 2011.
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The Wire Tapper 24, 2010
CD — The Wire Magazine (UK).
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Untitled Landscape, 2010
Pøst, Los Angeles, CA.
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Untitled 10 (The Black Album), 2010
Digital — Untitled & After (US).
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Untitled (December 2009), 2009
Digital — Self Released.
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About
Yann Novak and Robert Takahashi Crouch are sound and visual artists living and working in Los Angeles. Their practice incorporates field recordings, photography, and video as tools to investigate the relationship between site and subject. Through the digital manipulation of these sound and image files, Novak transforms these documents of personal experiences into abstracted impressions of the original subject. Crouch uses a combination of digital processing and modular synthesis to further abstract their subject matter.
Their current work explores the relationship between contemporary art making practices and the historical tradition of romantic landscape painting. Their installations and performances have been presented at the AxS Festival, Pasadena; California Museum of Photography, Riverside; Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica; LACMA, Los Angeles; Pøst, Los Angeles, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and others.