Meet Susmit! (that rhymes!)

Being myself is my favorite thing to do.  My name is Susmit. I am an artist. I am not the perfect artist, but not being perfect is perfection to me. Detecting new discoveries and experimenting with new ideas is my life. This also gives my art its life. I wander around and play with my art, and that’s when unexpected things happen. I am playful and learn by playing. This gives me my sense of humor. I am eager to be excited by new and mysterious ideas. I ponder these ideas and buy my inspiration from them. Technology and art are my friends. The three of us roam around in the realm of imagination to make new creations. I’ve always loved listening to music, and have wanted to create it. However, I’ve never played any instruments or sang professionally. Breathe is my medium to get to that goal of mine and actually make my own original work.

Find Mercedes' sounds at his page http://soundcloud.com/spudasaini

You can also hear Susmit's work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

Meet Mercedes Wallace, editor-in-chief of this blog!

When I was little my dad had a song for everything. His music surrounded my every day. I would hear him sing along to songs from when I woke up in the morning to when I went to sleep at night. Now, music is like my best friend because it has always been there for me. For every mood of mine there is a song. And for every song there is a lyric that describes my life. My background has brought me to a job working with sound. It has helped me to make audio that inspires other as more than a person. I want people to relate to my work, like how music relates to my life. When one listens to my audio I want them to go outside of their body and block out everything to focus on their mind, as if they were a monster. I want people to feel like a beautiful monster, like me.
-Mercedes Wallace

Find Mercedes' sounds at her page http://soundcloud.com/mercedes-wallace

You can also hear Mercedes' work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

UNBK aka UnbrokenDan aka Wilgens Metelus!

One of the most important things about art to me is the process, but I won’t be satisfied until someone hears my work and tells me how it sounds to them.  I enjoy working in a group like when we creat a circle and do our sound cypher ritual.  Listening to music while I am working,  when I am in a bad mood,  or when I am sad creates more space in my head.  I find a paper and pencil to write and draw something about me at these times.   Art is something I really like, mostly drawing and creating things I never thought I could create. Right now my art is working on my breathe sound  poem.  I enjoy being  outside most of all because that’s where art is that’s where I get ideas to express art from mother nature.   

(((Wilgens received Cambridge's Teen Leadership Award 2011 this past weekend and will be continuing to record voices and sounds for the future of the BREATHE project on his trip to El Salvador this summer, along with his good friend and fellow BREATHE artist Cliff Boucicaut)))

Find Wilgens' sounds at his page http://soundcloud.com/unbrokendan93

You can also hear Wilgens' work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

Meet Brandi!

My name is Brandi Santiago. I love to sing. It’s one of my favorite things to do, but when I hear myself I don’t feel like it’s me singing. I feel awkward, but when I listen to one of my pieces I am proud to know that I have dedicated my hard work into the piece that came out amazing. I am confident in my work. I have no ifs, ands, or buts when it comes to deciding what I want in my piece. As the creator I don’t repeat my stuff but I do build on my successes. I might start on something soft then come out loud, you will never expect. I tend to keep things straight and realistic. Not all of my pieces will have the perfect type of style that everyone likes that’s why I like mixing up the beat. I don’t consider myself an artist, I think of myself more as a person. To me an artist more than a human they are larger than life, but I know that one day I will be an artist.


Find Brandi's sounds at her page http://soundcloud.com/brandi1245

You can also hear Brandi's work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

ducttapedheart aka Matilda

My name is Matilda Koegel Ostow. “Matilda” means mighty and powerful. These strengths are inside me, but I have yet to show these attributes to the fullest. I’m carefully biding my time. I am motivated by every beautiful word, phrase, image or story and am inspired by other’s lives to help this world. My might has not yet led me to the path where I can fix all that I want to, but I know that if I could I would make this earth & its people happy because when I’m happy I can do anything. My art rides on its own emotions; there is no perfectly structured plan as I work because I like it to unfold and form on its own. With this art project I want this community to hear our voices, his voices, her voices, their voices and realize that we are more connected than we’d ever dream. We are one and the only way we can succeed is together.

Find Matilda's sounds at her page http://soundcloud.com/ducttapedheart

You can also hear Matilda's work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

Meet Cliff, a Breathe: Cambridge artist extraordinaire.

I’m Cliff Boucicaut and I’m Haitian. Love, life, my family, my friends, and natural disaster all inspire me. They make me think about one word, writing. When I think I write.  Sometimes art make us sad, other time we laugh or smile. Voltaire, master of the French language, made me enjoy reading with his poems. His writing makes me want to improve my language and use words economically.  Haitian food, television, math, and my family are a big part of my life. Respirer, to breathe, is to take a break and listen to nature, to care about other people and not only yourself.

Find Cliff's sounds @ http://soundcloud.com/sweet-boy-cliff

You can also hear Cliff's work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

Dora aka theexploraa (Artist Bio)

Dora Cronin
Artist Biography

    Before this Breathe Project, I had never considered a sound scape as part of an art installation or as art, and to be honest, I never really found the idea of it appealing. To me, art was something you could see, like a painting, or a sculpture, but not something audio, which is ironic because I am a musician. Yes they both require a creative mind, and each are creating a piece for entertainment or inspiration. But audio pieces are a modern invention. The closest thing our ancestors had to a sound scape was music. Music is beautiful, soft, and natural, it takes you back to a more primitive part of you, deep within our soul that makes us feel a connection to the world around us. A sound scape, I thought, couldn’t be like that. It seemed so computerized, and technological, heavy and fake, nothing that I wanted to be a part of. Not me. It wasn’t until I joined this project and started to create my own audio piece, that I realized that my sound didn’t have to be sharp and futuristic, and in fact I could do something much more beautiful and powerful with my hour of audio that I could never have done with a paintbrush or pencil, I could tell a story. And that is just what I have tried to do, with my musical background and personal taste, in my piece. Every one has a story, and within 23 lines, we asked the people of Cambridge to share theirs.

Find Dora's sounds at her page http://soundcloud.com/theexploraa

You can also hear Dora's work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!