(3D Modelling by Szandor Dashwood)
Worktype: Intermedial Room Installation (Audio, Visual, Sculptural, Spatial, Cybernetic, Relational, Social)
Materials: Red Lasers, Directional Speaker Array, Custom Sub-Bass Presence, Smoke Machine, Custom Sensor Electronics, Darkness.
Treatment
A darkened room is intersected by red lasers – malignant entities, whose role is uncertain. As visitors enter the space, their bodies activate the room installation. At the centre of the space, a black monolith is picked out by a single white spotlight – three sub-bass speakers are incorporated into this dense sculptural form and the room is filled with a thick wash of bass, sub bass and, sub-sub bass frequency. A feeling of dread denseness, at one time a comforting, unifying physicality, at another a malevolent force creating queasiness, claustrophobia and paranoia. The monolith draws visitors towards it like a black hole. Unknown to the them, the space is intersected by invisible lines of directional audio streams. As they move through the space these virtual channels of paranoiac transmissions, sinister and dreadful streams of intrasubjective terror, are seemingly broadcast into their skulls.
Dr Steve Goodman’s recent publication ‘Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and The Ecology of Fear’ will provide the experimental theoretical backbone of the proposed work. His discourse unifies a number of areas which are of great interest to me at this time: afrofuturism, entertainment-military sound practices, dub culture and urban experience. The curators approached me with a concept of ‘paranoia’, this, and Goodman’s work slotted together to provide me the inspiration for the proposed piece.
Construction by Don McLoglin and Oliver Gentili http://www.coroflot.com/o_gentili
Custom Circuitry by Michael Fisher, Lisa Hall and Ariel Karsh.
Lasers provided by Will Laslett
Thanks to Joel Cahen, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Christie, Julia @ ASC and Kirk Woolford. Without whom, this would not have been possible. Diolch yn fawr.
Arduino / Electronics etc
1 x Arduino Uno
2 x Arduino Duemilanove
http://fritzing.org/
http://arduino.cc/
http://www.ladyada.net/make/waveshield/
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Tone3
Car Audio
Power a car amp from the mains.
Skytronic 13.6V, 15A DC Regulated Power Supply
Juce JA 990 3000W Two channel Amp
2 x Audiobahn 15″ Drivers (AW1500V)
Ultrasonic Speakers
4 x AS013A Ultrasonic Speakers
2 x AS028A Ultrasonic Speakers
http://www.nicera.co.jp/pro/ut/ut-04e.html
http://zao.jp/radio/parametric/index_e.php
Infrasound
“Recent interest in the potential adverse human health effects of infrasound (generally inaudible sound with a frequency of <20 Hz) arises from health concerns expressed by the residents of Kokomo, Indiana. Several individuals in this community have complained of subjective non-specific symptoms including annoyance, sleep disturbance, headaches, and nausea. These symptoms are perceived by the individuals to be due to a low-frequency hum-like noise in and around their homes that is not clearly audible to everyone. Several local, state, and federal agency officials as well as acoustic experts in the academic community and private sector have been called upon to assist in investigating these health complaints. As yet, no firm conclusions have been reached regarding the relationship between this low-frequency noise and the residents’ health complaints."
(http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/htdocs/Chem_Background/ExSumPdf/Infrasound.pdf. Accessed May 2nd 2011)
http://forums.makezine.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3023
http://sites.google.com/site/appliedbiophysicsresearch/sound/infrasound/infrasound-design
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwoofers/140741-servodrive-subwoofer.html
http://www.eminent-tech.com/main.html
http://www.amazing1.com/vlf_elf.htm
http://www.swps.com/whelen-howler.html
Lasers
interesting future project? LDR’s combined with camera vision can locate position in 3D space. room laser harp.
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1279656020
http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/en-uk/videos/j-spaceman-and-jonathan-glazer
