Generator Sound Art was an experimental arts and culture organization based in New York City, co-owned by the sound artists Gen Ken Montgomery and Scott Konzelmann.[1][2] It focused upon the work of dedicated Sound Artists,[3] and was an umbrella organization that facilitated 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 to 1992.
The organization was non-commercial.[4][3] Profits earned from Generator-related activities are split between the artists and a fund to support future sound art projects.[3] Generator's emphasis on handmade, self-released audio works derives from the "cassette networking" or "Cassette culture" milieu of the 1980s–1990s,.[5] The embrace of spontaneity and unintended consequences[6] is another recurrent theme within Generator-affiliated work.
- ^ Goldsmith, Kenneth. "Stairway To Eight Track Heaven". New York Press. December 20–26, 2000.
- ^ Generator Online. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
- ^ a b c Generator Sound Arts index. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
- ^ "None of my projects have been very business-like as I've always had as my motivation certain ideals that seem to exclude any possibility of a real 'business.'" Ken Montgomery quoted interviewed by Daniel Plunkett in Fragment 4 magazine / cassette. ND, Austin, 1992.
- ^ Generator Sound Arts history. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
- ^ "For me…the imagination runs wild when an artist can free himself from the known and jump into the unknown. It can be sort of scary, but I've always been interested in jumping." Ken Montgomery quoted in Dery, Mark, "Notes From The Underground." Keyboard. February 1990.