'amusia ' interactive
sound installation ::
Yvat & Adrian Tabacaru - live
performance
Conceptual basis of this installation is found in surrealistic
statement that reversal or alteration of common order of things
transforms the entire environment and makes us discover new
meanings, juxtapositions of senses and ideas. Modern society
is constructed in a mechanist manner and thus is highly depending
on rigors and shapes of the Newtonian Physics. How would any
one react in front of a denial of the low of gravitation itself,
as the ruling principle of our world? How people living in
a noisy world, full of edges, abrupt shapes and colourful
would react in front of the stillness? This installation intends
to intrigue its audience. Viewers will be put in front of
an evident altered visual impression on the environment and,
in the same time, they will be challenged to choose how the
atmosphere around them will develop, by making them interact
directly with the installation and by provoking them to generate
their own audible environment.
The idea was inspired by one of the early paintings of Rene
Magritte: "The Voice of Space" (1928), which questioned
the gravitation by representing the impressive stillness of
spherical objects projected on a clear blue sky. These spheres
often occurred then in Magritte's paintings, as a personal
motif, and their conceptual meaning became even more complex.
Sphere is the perfect shape and the perfect metaphor. It has
an inner musicality and it is self- sufficient; it contains
everything and nothing in the same time; a sphere is emptied
of any particular sense, but in the same time contains them
all. This was enriched by inspiring as well from Tom Gutt's
metal objects based on the same spheres...And this installation
intends to intrigue its audience as well, by using apparently
known shapes and materials, even objects from the domestic
universe and urban architecture.
Description:
Thus, we created a system of 7 metal and polymerized plastic/carbonic
structure spheres , totalizing a surface with a length of
almost 3 meters. The installation proposes a minimal environment
in terms of space and colours. As in Magritte painting, the
two hemispheres of each sphere are detached and in the empty
median space, thus created, people are invited to insert and
move gently their hands. These movements make sensors responsive
to light to react and to generate sounds. Three people can
interact in the same time with the 7 spheres, creating together
melodic or noisy sounds, collaboration between them being
another challenge of this installation. Noises and music generated
by this particular space and its transient inhabitants are
audible for the ones interacting with the sphere, only, by
headphones. This gives the title of the installation: Amusia,
which is the inability to recognize musical tones and rhythms
or to reproduce them, or, roughly saying, it is the lack of
music.
Credit:
Co-Production : yvat collective/City Sonics
Project co-coordinator/concept&design: Iulia Popa
Music and sound system: yvat
IT support: Adrian Tabacaru
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'amusia' was exhibited at City Sonics - sound art festival, Mons, Be
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