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Organic Interface #5 Organic Interface #5 is an interactive sound sculpture that uses two Alberta Spruce trees as tactile antennas of a Theremin-like instrument. The trees are housed in a rolling speaker cabinet unit and are automatically engaged when a human body is within close proximity. Body contact with the plant increases pitch. Depending on how the plant is touched, one a can create a range of frequencies. The simultaneous connection of the two trees creates inter-modulations between two oscillators. A wall text explains proper interaction and suggests ideas on how to make music involving multiple participants. |
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Biotronic Research Module #7 Biotronic Research Module #7 is a large scientific multimedia sculpture using the rotation of plants to create a soundscape through an overly convoluted cascading signal chain. Like a Rube Goldberg Sculpture, this piece ironically pushes complex technology to pointless extremes for a mesmerizing technotronic audiovisual experience. |
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AO2000 The Automation Orchestra 2000 is an interactive musical robot made up of various ordinary household appliances, motors, home-made electronics, an acoustic guitar, and a cast-off computer. The music is produced by the motors striking different surfaces, and the appliances cycling on and off. AO2000 interprets audience location information, which changes the automation sequence of the music. The crucial aesthetic of the piece’s construction is its intentional use of low-tech materials, and its kludge-style execution. |
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Language Extension #4 Two blenders sit on top of a TV mimicking the speech love/ hate dialogues in soap opera videos. Blender noise becomes a vocal extension of the TV character, relaying the sibilance of speech in mechanical form. The voice’s pitch and loudness control the speed and intensity of the blender, creating a sonic envelope of words. |
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HDMXR HD is sound sculpture consisting of eight computer hard drives emitting various love/ hate dialogs from soap operas. The hard drives have been transformed into speaker transducers emitting sounds through mechanical movement and also through sympathetic vibration of materials. The soap opera dialogues are stripped to a basic semblance of speech, conveyed individually through each hard drive. The eight hard drives are mounted to wall cabinet in two rows of four. The piece is designed so there are 4 different conversations between the top and bottom drives. |
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