flaws (2014)
sound installation / 4-ch / microphones, transducers and metal resonators
This is a sound installation I created inside of the rear staircase of the IEM in Graz, which features metal fins that can easily be brought into resonance. Four lowpass-filtered microphones sense air movement at four specific parts in the staircase architecture, and four electromagnetic transducers, installed close-by and attached to the metal fins, excite these metal fins at the frequencies of their specific resonances (their overtone series, so to say). A Max software patch is organizing both the signal conditioning and the musical behaviour. The result is a very intuitive, direct and easily understandable resonating reaction (or connection) of the staircase architecture (of it’s metal fins) to the movement of the wind around it; a wind chime, so to say.
Some more info is featured on the vimeo page (click on the title below, or click here).