Generator Sound Art
in New York, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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Generator Sound Art is an experimental arts and culture organization based in New York City and co-owned by the sound artists 'Gen' Ken Montgomery and Scott Konzelmann. It focuses upon the work of dedicated Sound Artists, and is an umbrella organization that either facilitated or continues to facilitate the activities of the Generator gallery / exhibition space, the Generations Unlimited audio recording label, and a second, eponymous audio recording label. Generator as a physical gallery / exhibition space existed in the East Village and then in Chelsea from 1989–1992.The organization is based upon a non-commercial approach to art-making, with the acknowledgement that financial remuneration is not the primary goal of such activity ("Artists Throwing Money Out the Window" has been used as a personal slogan by Montgomery, and as the name of a series of audio releases that deal in "irreverent and / or fun errata.") Profits earned from Generator-related activities go directly to the artists, and also "build a fund to support future sound art projects." Generator's emphasis on handmade, self-released audio works also derives from its founders' participation in the "cassette networking" or "Cassette culture" milieu of the 1980s–1990s, while the embrace of spontaneity and unintended consequences is another recurrent theme within Generator-affiliated work.
