Adjacent Frequencies - A collaborative interactive sound installation project with Lewis Keller
Adjacent Frequencies :: Oct 7th 2006
Venue - 2nd City Council Gallery
Adjacent Frequencies is an interactive mixed material installation created with Lewis Keller. As guests enter the room, they encounter a silent collection of four black poxes positioned on pedistals in the center of the room. Each box contains a variety of circuits which emit electromagnetic energy into the surrounding space. The interactee is given a pack with headphones and phone-tap probes to listen to the various changing tones produced by the circuits hidden within. Unbeknownst to the interactee, the headphone packs have been fitted with FM transmitters, which broadcast the sounds heard by each interactee over a loudspeaker system in another space outside the installation room. This piece was inspired by the idea of the black-box as a signifier of techno-fetishization. The piece is centered around issues of privacy rights, close physical proximity in contrast with social isolation as fascilitated by communications technology, and strict regulation of mainstream media content.
images ::
image-002 In the 2nd City Council Gallery
image-003 Tighter Shot
image-004 Headphones and Instructions
Adjacent Frequencies :: March 2006
Venue - Cal Arts Wave Cave (B300)
images ::
image-001 :: Stina and Sarah
image-002 :: Lewis, James, Stina, Qasim
image-003 :: Doug (fore), Harris (back)
image-004 :: Some people I don't know
image-005 :: I hid the speakers in the ceiling...
image-006 :: ...kinda like this...
image-007 :: ...so that they'd diffuse in this.
image-008 :: The guts before they were put into their boxes
image-009 :: Circuits are fun!
image-010 :: Emitters and things