Ted Apel’s work combines the visual and the aural to create sound sculptures, using predominantly electronic audio as their basis. With computer processors and other sound equipment; elemental materials like stone, wood and metal as well as found objects, Apel combines the physicality of objects with the ephemerality of sound.

Scientific glass & basic sound circuitry are the primary materials used in the principal exhibited piece, “Call & Resonance.” The work explores the cyclical, temporal and mutable properties of sound by the recording, processing and playback of ambient noise in the gallery.  

Smaller works included in the exhibition expand on Apel’s interest in ambient sound and highlight the importance of the work’s contextual nature especially in relationship to its particular location and placement. Other presented work involve interactive elements and explore our basic relationship with music & sound. 

Apel’s practice consists of creating and combining unmistakably tangible objects with the immateriality of sonic work. Elements linked together; neither functioning without the other. Apel consciously constructs his work to be both sound and sculpture.

Originally from Southern California, Ted Apel now lives & works in Boise, Idaho. He received his MA from Dartmouth College in electroacoustic music and his PhD in computer music from UCSD. He is currently teaching computer music and new media art as adjunct faculty at Boise State University.