Sound Circuit

This is a video of my installation Sound Circuit as it was presented at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON. (fall 2004). I have shown versions of it perhaps 5 or 6 times since in various locations across Canada.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Electro-Mechanical
• Sound
• Installation
• Audio
• Art

[khaoliang]

If you speed up this video so that it's runtime is only ~7 seconds, it will sound like an old 56k-modem dialing in!

[reallyhappening]

@khaoliang how did you go about speeding it up?

[khaoliang]

@reallyhappening XD dude, I wanted to make a joke. The audio this artistic installation produces sounds rather random, so it's a little like the weird sounds a 56k-modem produces when it dials in. I just imagined how this video's audio would sound like if you sped it up, and there it was - sounds like 56k-modem, I was thinking. I could download the song, rip the audio, throw it into audacity and speed it up to hear if I was actually right, but I'm not gonna bother. Great vid, btw.

[reallyhappening]

@khaoliang Thanks! (I thought you might know of a YouTube way of speeding up the video)

[littlescale]

hey, nice work. highly enjoyable. i think that this approaches aspects of my own aesthetic, in terms of visual / hardware presentation, automation and audio outcome. With i could hear it in the space!

[reallyhappening]

I don't know where you're based out of Littlescale, but this piece is currently installed at the Ottawa Art Gallery (Canada), until Nov 11 as part of the Media Povera show.

[wickedwickedwest]

Beatiful work. I would be interested to know how some of the sounds are triggered. For example, the large rotating disc. Looks like black tape placed at intervals rotatse around placing a sensor in shadow.

[skaterdude502]

this is scary

[nudle90]

I don´t get this?

[iamarobot]

really great!

iamarobot

[Nicetry75]

there's a lingering and eerie sense of loneliness to this that just perfects it! Nice contraptions too!

[myzbe]

That's amazing! I love it! It's as if you've taken the the idea of a morse code and the old thomas edison invention's of the phonograph and made and instrument. You could compose diiferent works using different comninations of tape. It's like a really abstract music box.

[jabezisat]

Good