Stephen Vitiello Interview

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-date = 2024-05-31
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+**Leonard Francis Coogan**
 
+The following is an interview with Stephen Vitiello, sound artist and Chair of Kinetic Imaging at VCUarts.
+He made his breakthrough as a sound artist with the residency he did
+[recording sounds of and from the 91st floor of the World Trade Center in 1999](https://whitney.org/collection/works/15832).
+I don't know Stephen personally, but he'll be one of my professors when I start
+the Kinetic Imaging program at VCU.
 
+---
 **Leonard Francis Coogan**
 
-The following is an interview with sound artist Stephen Vitiello who currently
-serves as Chair of Kinetic Imaging at VCUarts where he's been for two decades.
-His breakthrough work as a sound artist was a residency he did recording sounds
-of and from the 91st floor of the World Trade Center in 1999, which he later used for his
-album "Bright and Dusty Things", ~~now having a permanently altered meaning.~~
-
 First off, what is sound art?
 
 
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 **Leonard Francis Coogan**
 
-What type of work do you like to do?
+What type of work is interesting for you?
 
 
 **Stephen Vitello**
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 _[Music: [Afterglow (Or Abendrot) by Stephen Vitiello](https://championversion.bandcamp.com/album/afterglow-or-abendrot)_]
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+[Stephen's website](https://www.stephenvitiello.com)