Defragmentation/blue - Audio-architectural installation by Bernhard Gal and Yumi Kori, 1999

This is a video documentation of:

Defragmentation/blue

Audio-architectural installation by Bernhard Gal and Yumi Kori. Presented at Studio Five Beekman, New York City, 1999.

Defragmentation/blue (1999):
Reflective ribbons, black light, loudspeakers

Further information:
http://www.bernhardgal.com/defragmentationblue.html

Video by John Roach.

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In Defragmentation/blue, time seems to stand still. Five bright blue lines float in the dark. Depending on the viewers perspective, they appear as a horizon or as a covering of the space, and they continue into the infinity of unlimited black. In actuality, the light rays are ultraviolet-reflecting ribbons. To move further into the room, one has to crawl under them, which completely changes the visual and acoustic perception of the space. The unboundedness of the architectural installation is reinforced by the static-repetitive structure of the sound installation. In the compositional design of Defragmentation/blue, Bernhard Gal incorporates psycho-acoustic phenomena like masking effects, combination tones, and the gestalt laws of psychology. In a progression of frozen time-windows, superpositions of partial tones unfold, varying with the listeners position in the room; micro-tonal glissandos form floating sound textures that fill the whole room.

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