DOT MAGAZINE

PSYCHIC LIBERATION: FINE ART’S

SOUND LAB MAKES WAVES OF

NOISE

WRITER: SOLVEJ SCHOU
PHOTOGRAPHER: JUAN POSADA
AUGUST 08, 2017

ARTCENTER.EDU

"On a recent Friday night in July, Fine Art student Mehregan Meysami stands behind two tables heaped with music equipment—a turntable, mixer, black audio cables, effects pedals and more—on the spacious second floor of the 870 Building.

A distorted child’s voice—her own as a 5-year-old recorded in her native Iran—swells through speakers and crashes against a cacophony of ambient noise that reverberates in your chest. Meysami takes a contact microphone she made herself and drags it along the turntable’s edges, unleashing guttural splinters of sound. Students and faculty sit transfixed in front of her."