Ethan Rose: The Oregonian

PDX Contemporary Art: Local sound artist Ethan Rose has long been absorbed by how the abstract and ethereal "matter" of sound and music leave their indelible marks on the physical world. The artist, who scored Gus Van Sant's "Paranoid Park" in 2007, brings that idea to its fullest expression yet in "Entwined," up this month at PDX Contemporary Art. For this layered body of work, Rose composed a string arrangement, then played a recording of it from bare speaker cones attached to ink-soaked strings, which ran over white paper. As the music played, the vibration of the speakers moved through the strings, creating ghostly drawings that will be displayed alongside the speakers themselves.

PDX Contemporary Art
925 N.W. Flanders St.
pdxcontemporaryart.com; through June 27

-- John Motley for The Oregonian/OregonLive