2009: Wunderflater, Sculpture/Architecture/Installation/Networked live audio-feed. Tomas Welton Gallery, Stanford. MFA group collaborative show with Michael Arcega, Reed Anderson, Kazumi Shiho and Jina Valentine.

 

 

Ringing through connected disconnected spaces which is a new continuity..

 

Conceptually, this work challenges ideas of territory, control, transmission, tranception and how we listen to the world. The tunnel is live and interactive: the participant becomes the transmitter and is transmitted/ displaced (in sound) in many actual places in fractions of milliseconds. A recursive eavesdropping becomes possible in this unseen territory. Live sound travels from location to location, reverberating in each space. A kind of anonymity reverberates through the piece. It is a borderless territory designed for listening. Acoustically the reverberations and other characteristics of each space add up, thus creating a new recombinant space that is the distorted and warped sum of its parts. The directional audio tunnel - loudspeaker to microphone to network device to loudspeaker to microphone to network device and so on … traveling around the world through sound.

 

Rooms, each with microphone and loudspeaker, are daisy-chained in a directional live audio tunnel - each individual space, is a node and is able to receive audio from another node through the internet and play it into the space through a loudspeaker, record the reverberations and other ambient sounds of the environment and send it back over the internet to the next similar device with no noticable latency...

 

 

The mixer/router in Max/MSP that controlled the routings levels being pumped into each space and the level that is received from each space - a flexible way to change direction of signal flow or make different patterns over time:

 

 

Unique microphones were built for the space:

 

 

 

 

Scematic for each space:

 

Local gallery schematic:

 

 

Jacktrip:

 

 

 

 

LISTEN HERE:

 

 

1. Live Tunnel

 

2. Botox performs the Audio Tunnel

 

3. Whistle through 7 spaces. I had to filter & compress each room severely to avoid huge feedback, listen how a low frequency still pulses through the multi-space. Also for the pusposed of distinguishing better between each room, for this specific test recording I added delays for each room so one can clearly hear each iteration of the signal.

 

4. 7 Connected Spaces going live, people come and go, some talking close to the microphone, some working sounds, some ambient evironmental sounds like aeroplanes fly over some of the rooms.

 

5. Someone talking on the phone