Timothy Nohe

Candles for Faust is a sound and video installation artwork produced for a silent storefront installation at the in/flux gallery, 307 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore. The work will be on view from November 5 – 19, 2011.

Candles for Faust portrays candles, burning at both ends, that eventually extinguish themselves and fall from sight. Stereo recordings were produced of the drumming sound of dripping wax falling on printmaking paper. I imagined the candles as “musical instruments” producing unique and chaotic drum patterns. As the candles attempted to reach equilibrium, teetering back and forth, they tattooed a pattern of wax scatter on the paper below. The resulting wax splashed detritus exists on the surface of the prints as a record of time and residue of the beating wax drummer, long extinguished.

The video presented here is a condensed version of one candle seeking equilibrium. The typical lifespan of the candles ranged from 9 and 11 minutes. The work may also be presented accompanied by sound and prints.

Ashes, Ashes was composed as an elegiac concert work for the 10th anniversary of the September 11th tragedy. The work debuted September 11, 2011 at Christ Lutheran Church Inner Harbor, Baltimore. This is the final movement of the 18 minute work; the full work is available on DVD from the artist.

Lyrics and Music by Timothy Nohe. Improvisations by the musicians. Diane Schaming, mezzo soprano; Lisa Cella, winds and water; Andy Hayleck, bowed percussion; Timothy Nohe, laptop synthesis and sequences, waterphone, water and ash. © Timothy Nohe 2011

Concert organized by Hollis Thoms for the National Capital Area Chapter of the Fulbright Alumni Association.

Final movement lyrics:

The day is done, the day is past

The conspiracy remains,

at a distance,

menacing us, controlling us, invading us,

Hands against us, without and within,

and we do strike out

directing our wrath

but no consolation is found as

fire eats fire

This bone is bitter

in our mouths

and our cries for

mother, father

sister, and brother

rise into clear blue sky

Clear sky

Lift

Lift

Lift

your voice

to the clear

clear blue sky

to the clear blue sky

to the clear

People as Verbs, 2011. Climbing the ladder of anti-success. Music and HD video by Timothy Nohe, Gina Braden, actor. Scored for business machines, waterphone, synthesis. This work will be projected at the in/flux gallery, 307 West Baltimore Street, November 5 - 19, 2011.

This work was originally created for a dance collaboration with choreographer Reneé Brozic Barger. This version is meant for installation and screenings.

Dedicated to all of those who have been “right-sized,” are searching for work, or are bent over by the promises of the middle class dream.

The Crystal Egg

Directed by Colette Searls
IRC Fellows mentored by Timothy Nohe
Sound Score by Timothy Nohe

Presented December 2-5 & 10-13 at the UMBC Theater

Based on the story by sci-fi pioneer H.G. Wells, this new adaptation mixed humanoid puppets with animated creatures in an extraordinary tale of otherworldly encounters.

The Crystal Egg featured curio shop owner Mr. Cave, a lonely old man whose life is forever changed when one of his curiosities — a small crystal egg — reveals itself as the home of creatures from another world.

Using innovative new animation tools, The Crystal Egg featured creatures created by UMBC’s Imaging Research Center Fellows who came to life and engaged with puppets in real time. Set to an original score by sound artist Timothy Nohe, The Crystal Egg offered a unique experience in visual and aural storytelling.

“Thirty Oaks,” is a site-specific work that celebrates the Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park with dance, improvised music and costumes. The project joined choreographer Meghan Flanigan, sound artist Timothy Nohe, and visual artist Antoinette Suiter in a multidisciplinary collaboration involving UMBC dance students and Baltimore musicians Rose Hammer Burt, Tiffany DeFoe and Will Redman. 

The work sets a dialogue between the human instinct to preserve and enjoy nature while also transforming and polluting it. The audience was invited to inhabit the park with the performers, enjoying the setting as well as the performance. The work was performed October 21, 2010 and will be presented again in April of 2011.