Biography
Known also as a haiku poet, John Hudak has issued multiple minimalist albums built from faint, ordinarily unnoticed elements within routine acoustic environments such as highway traffic. While found sounds appear from time to time, the bulk of his material derives from processed field recordings. Over several years he issued numerous experimental works restricted to cassette format. His debut compact disc appeared solely in Japan under the title Pond; there Hudak experimented with hydrophone captures of aquatic insects, generating successive layers of buzzing drones. That composition later appeared in an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Brooklyn Bridge, released in 1998, revealed concealed magnetic tones emanating from the celebrated New York City structure as passing vehicles set them in motion. The 1999 album Don't Worry About Anything, I'll Talk to You Tomorrow incorporated a modified answering-machine greeting recorded by the artist’s mother. Highway, issued in 2001 and characterized by its gently layered textures and rhythmic pulse, originated along the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Beyond his recorded output, Hudak has contributed to online sound installations.
Albums