Name: Cat’s Cradle
Artist: Dillon Bastan, The2vvo
Each column is equipped with a pressure sensor. When participants pull the elastic bands, the pressure sensors are triggered, sending signals to the Arduino, which then communicates with sound programming software to provide feedback.
Proposed Implementation:
Flexible pressure sensors are wrapped around the columns and connected to a microcontroller. The sensors output digital signals to the microcontroller, which transmits the information via serial communication to sound programming platforms such as Max/MSP or Pure Data to generate sound output.
Places for Inspiration and Learning:
Learn to flexibly use various sensors and control sound through serial communication with a microcontroller.
Name: High Rise
Produced with technical partnership of OMP Engineering in cooperation with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
The site specific sound installation was designed in order to enhance the space of the first floor of Fabbrica Alta, a former six storeys high wool factory in Schio (Italy). Six aluminum pipes, whose sizes represent the height of each floor of the building, are suspended from the ceiling, thus creating a long central perspective line in order to develop horizontally the six storeys of the factory. Six loudspeakers in the pipes emit sound waves tuned to theharmonics of the resonance frequencies of the building, so as to create – not only visually, but also acoustically – a spatial perception of Fabbrica Alta.
Places for Inspiration and Learning:
Learn how to integrate the installation seamlessly with the exhibition space, where the visual elements and overall environment complement each other.
Name: Data Sound
A part of the media art lab of Kunsthaus Graz (MedienKunstLabor) in the early 2000s.
The sculpture consisted of a locker, where each lock box was equipped with a high speed internet connection, cooling and a power supply for computers. The lock boxes could be used by artists and internet activists to realize their projects.
48 vibration motors were mounted on the diffferent surfaces of the sculpture (glass, metal). When vibrating, the motors rhythmically hit the surfaces they were attached to, creating percussive sounds. The motors were controlled using pixelated images, while each pixel represented one motor, making it possible to trigger and manipulate the movement of each motor individually. The brighter the pixel, the stronger the vibration of the motor and the louder and more pronounced the sound. Generative patterns like perlin noise and gradients were used to create spatial movement on the surface of the object.
Places for Inspiration and Learning:
The first thing I thought when I saw it was that if all the vibration motors were replaced with contact microphones, they could create sound feedback when moved by the wind and strike the sculpture. This could be quite interesting as well 😉
Name: Susurrus
Artist: Logos Foundation
By pumping air to make the iron pipe sound, the audience can use various ways to make sound with the air pipe, very interactive.
Places for Inspiration and Learning:
Interactivity, and this can serve as a piece of public art with educational value. Both children and adults can engage with it by playing with wind-activated sound objects. Children, in particular, will find it delightful and enjoyable.
Name: Summa Fluctus
Artist: Opificio Sonico
Explores the complex world of harmonics and their acoustic beats in the spaces. The work is inspired on the research of the French mathematical J.Fourier, who in the 1800’s formulated the laws that govern the relationship between the harmonic waves produced by sound in nature. The artwork consists of six suspended floating loudspeakers that rise and fall to various heights, directly related to the frequency (sine waves) that each one reproduce. The #installation is designed to represent organically the concept of “heights” of a sound, by mechanically change the structure; a synaesthetic experience for viewers who create their own wave series by an interactive touch-consolle.
Places for Inspiration and Learning:
Visualizing sound properties such as frequency, amplitude, or rhythm / Interactive mechanical control / Transforming scientific concepts into artistic forms / Multi-sensory synesthesia / Advantages of downward-facing speakers: sound reflection, easy suspension from the ceiling with a single wire (possibly using high-strength magnets?). This could be applied to my Project 2, making it more convenient to install and seal the balloon’s air inlet.