SONALUMINA-13

SONALUMINA-13 (2004) is site-specific to the acoustic resonance of the Art Interactive exhibition space. The aluminum plates of the installation refer to the signature metal of the space (the floor is made of aluminum tiles), and serve as principal objects of the installation. The plates function as both art object and "Rosetta Stone," as they engage and transfer sound and light energies while creating waveform equivalencies dependent on space and metal.

I anlayzed the aluminum floor tiles of the site for resonant content. Then I fed room tone resonance to twelve underfloor speakers and seven others attached to the panels. Resonant frequencies concurrent to both floor panels and the room create overlapping densities of aluminum and site resonance. Spectral emission frequencies of light from the element aluminum are projected onto the panels and floor. Sonic and luminous spectral data from the resonance of the site and the properties of the aluminum metal merge in the installation to form concurrent tuned radiant wave fields.

Object aluminum, atomic number 13 on the periodic table of the elements, becomes a bridge to space, sound and light. While addressing principles relating self to space and object, the installation further explores frontiers of rhymed spatial and material perceptions. Normally achieved only by destruction of an element, the spectral colors provide a metaphor for the release of object material to the realm of pure perception.