Threshold Residency
Salon 20
Submitted by Colm Lally on Wed, 2006-05-31 07:54.
Salon20 represents the rebirth of an old beauty machine. In its former life it was used to burn the consum societies fat. It was found on the streets of London by one of the students and was brought to the gallery. Then we hacked the electric circuits to use the knobs and the original rythm of the electric voltage which was switched on and off to stimulate the muscles. This rythm which can still be manipulated by the salon20 user alternates between the two light/sound boxes and controls the two channel sound environment. Also there are ten knobs to control and manipulate the sounds. This sounds are recorded from the building as a basic sound footage wich was used for further sound manipulations. The installation provideas an incentive by standing between the two ligth/sound walls, playing with the knobs of salon20 and diving into the sound and light atmosphere. You can create spacy distorted feedback sounds or an sweet and chilling sound sphere.
Sound CAD
Submitted by John Wynne on Mon, 2006-05-29 13:08.16.1 channel sound installation by John Wynne
Video installation by Moe Ekapob and Kevin Ling
The sound installation component of this piece was impossible to document: it was in total darkness, so there was nothing to photograph; the sound was inextricably site-specific and dependent on 16 separate channels and a large subwoofer. It began in response to a CAD (Computer Aided Design) drawing made by one of the AA participants as an aid to the discussion of what we would do in this space. My initial idea was to try to make the equivalent of a CAD drawing using only sound, starting with a 3-dimensional ‘wireframe’ line drawing to trace out the dimensions of the space and then rendering the walls with ‘sheets’ of sound. The challenge was to find sounds which would remain localised as much as possible to the surfaces of the space but which were also sufficiently distinguishable from each other to allow the visitor to negotiate the space using only sound, in the total absence of light.
Cable cable
Submitted by John Wynne on Mon, 2006-05-29 13:03.Just some of the speaker wire required for Sound CAD's 16.1 channels.
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ABOUT THIS JOURNAL
This journal documents the daily activities of the Threshold Residency. The group was encouraged to evolve a process of working together to explore new techniques and to trace processes and experiments. Throughout the residency participants documented their activities online in this journal.
CONTRIBUTORS
Artists:
Volker Morawe
John Wynne
Students:
AA Dip 9
Moderators:
John Bell
Colm Lally
Chloe Vaitsou
