Backyard is artist Uri Katzenstein’s acclaimed retrospective exhibition. I composed the core soundtrack and sequencing of the ground-breaking robot orchestra. Watch it in this film:
Borderline Case
A new work by the artist Uri Katzenstein. As usual I’m responsible for the sound of the “creature” shown here. A completely useless hardworker robot. The work was originally shown in the “about stupidity” exhibition at the Petah Tikva museum, 2013.
Auschwitz Jewish Pavilion – The Ideology Room
The Ideology Room is one of many rooms at the new, permanent exhibition about the Jewish Holocaust, in the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Housed in a red brick barracks known as Cell Block 27,The Jewish Memorial Pavilion opened its doors in June 2013.
In this project I was working alongside the Studio de-Langa team of architects, Prof. Adi Stern (head of Visual Communication department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design), designer Ori succary and Artist Yael Burstein.
The purpose of this room is to illustrate the Nazi ideology by using all senses. Most of the soundtrack is made up form the speeches that appear on the video screens. The rest is made from sounds originating in parades and ceremonies from the Nazi period.
The Garden
Video art work by Uri Katzenstein. Ishai created the music (co written by Uri Katzenstein) and designed the soundtrack, with squeaky violins that converse with a voyager robot – a moving platform that rolls and hovers among the characters that enter and exit the scene.
The film was also included in the exhibition Hunger in the Israeli Center for Digital Art.
Azoi
Another video By Uri Katzenstein with continuous elements from “The Garden”. The music and sound design here are totally different. Busting heavy metal guitar, jumpy elements and lot’s of amusing distorted sound.
La la Major
A sound installation by Uri Katzenstein & Ishai Adar. La La Major is a cacophonous sound installation that portrays a local landscape using music as its raw material. It features 24 speakers hung wall-to-wall resembling a loose rope bridge and playing 24 different pieces of music simultaneously. In order to put together a local musical landscape, Ishai and Uri Katzenstein used only Israeli music pieces. The spectators stood facing the bridge and listened to the humming it produced, while watching a video screening that showed diagrams of the sound waves. The result is a sound-and-sculptural-element installation that can be localized in various places around the world.
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Exhibited in Herzliya Museum, 2007.
Home
A Video art installation by Uri Katzenstein. The project used 11 video projections screened simultaneously. One of Ishai’s many joint projects with visual artist and musician Uri Katzenstein. Ishai designed the soundtrack and composed the music together with Binya Reches. Home represented Israel in the 2001 Venice Biennale.