Interiors - rooms - always resonate sonically, just as a soda bottle
does when air is blown into it. resonance^3 multiplies these sounds by
tuning steel objects to match the resonance of the space. Digital
analysis locates the resonant frequencies of the space. Digital filters
extract the resonance from the mass of the room tone.
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carbon steel cylinders, brake
rotors, audio speakers
24.3- channel audio, concrete blocks, steel cable
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distilled resonance of the space is projected into steel cylinders
which have been cut to produce the same resonant frequencies. When the
sound emerges from the other end of a tube, it has been re-resonated by
the tuned cylinder. Because the sound is resonant to the gallery space,
the emerging re-resonated sound is re-re-resonated by the space. |
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installation, presented in the two gallery spaces of bitforms,
is a diptych. 'sound cylinders' features a series of long pipes hung
vertically and horizontally from the walls and ceiling. The
presentation recalls wind chimes and organ pipes but the abstracted
configurations also de-objectify the steel columns as literal
instruments. |
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dimensions:
10'6" x 18" x 20"
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| In 'sonic columns' eight columns of pure sound
are realized. By placing truncated eight inch lengths of pipe above and
below each other with empty space between, columns with no mid-sections
are formed. The eye and the ear complete the voided columns as the
extreme object quality of steel is displaced. The art object is
released in sound and the ephemeral space that lies between the steel
objects. |
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