2016, kinetic sound installation
320 cm x 6 cm x 4 cm
64 electro-mechanical relays, radio receiver, found antenna object, PVC sheets, micro-controller, custom electronics
_Pitch
As an attempt of a binary representation of complex organic sounds – noise, language and music – the installation is programmed to constantly search the radio spectrum and algorithmically analyze it. The received sounds are recreated with clicks and noises made by 64 electro-mechanical relays. This process of sonic reduction and rasterization produces a copy, still carrying some of the original information of the sound (rhythms, densities and timbres), but which is also vague enough to become properly interpretable again.
The piece challenges the loss of meaning in digital transformations, which often leads to strange interpretations and misunderstandings, but also to a deeper understanding of an idea or concept.
_Operating principle
The installation is slowly scanning through the FM radio spectrum and recreates the received audio with 64 electromechanic relays.
_Exhibitions
01.2017 Inframince / Villa Mallet Stevens / Paris
06.2016 Avatar / Meduse / Quebec (CA)
_Art dealer
$ Artjaws (F)
_Support
+ Developed at and with Avatar Centre of the Cooperative Méduse, Quebec (CA), in the framework of a residency by Pépinières européennes and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
+ Many thanks to LA Chambre Blanche.
_Press
* neural #56 (IT)
* Point Contemporain (FR)
* Inferno Magazine (FR)
