Title: Modulation
Date: 2004
Materials:
Speaker Mass: wood (pine), audio cables, laptop, 8 port firewire I/O audio pre amp, speakers (varying size), speaker wire, rope
Interactive Mic (2): uni-directional microphone, custom fiberglass enclosure
Guitars (2): CNC routed red oak, chrome hardware, EMG epoxy pick-up, dual-direction truss rod
Enclosure: 1/2" thick, two-color poly-foam
Dimensions:
Speaker Mass: 6' x 6', 14-sided
Interactive Mic (2): 9" wide x 13" tall x 7" deep
Guitar (2): 1" thick x 43" long
Enclosure: 20' wide x 20' deep x 12' high
Programs: MaxMSP with wireless network supported interaction capabilities
Materials:
Speaker Mass: wood (pine), audio cables, laptop, 8 port firewire I/O audio pre amp, speakers (varying size), speaker wire, rope
Interactive Mic (2): uni-directional microphone, custom fiberglass enclosure
Guitars (2): CNC routed red oak, chrome hardware, EMG epoxy pick-up, dual-direction truss rod
Enclosure: 1/2" thick, two-color poly-foam
Dimensions:
Speaker Mass: 6' x 6', 14-sided
Interactive Mic (2): 9" wide x 13" tall x 7" deep
Guitar (2): 1" thick x 43" long
Enclosure: 20' wide x 20' deep x 12' high
Programs: MaxMSP with wireless network supported interaction capabilities
This project created an interactive environment examining the viewer's exploration of a foreign object. Its environment is big and immersive. White foam insulates the sound produced by the Speaker Mass. Viewers could walk around the piece to explore it from all sides. Two fiberglass shapes held microphones hanging from the ceiling. The Speaker Mass reacted to the amplitude of the Viewer's voices in the microphones and responded with distorted echoes resampled, modulated and mixed with the Speaker Mass's own language. The interactive elements were powered by MAX/MSP.
On the night of the opening two handmade solid-body electric guitars played a composition written for the piece. During the performance the guitarist's signals were sent through filters that I controlled via a wireless MAX/MSP application with key commands. The guitars were routed out of 1" thick red oak on a 3 axis router from a design built in Rhino 3D. With hardware included the guitars were only 1.5" thick with matching hardware and a 25.5" scale hand-laid fretboard.
On the night of the opening two handmade solid-body electric guitars played a composition written for the piece. During the performance the guitarist's signals were sent through filters that I controlled via a wireless MAX/MSP application with key commands. The guitars were routed out of 1" thick red oak on a 3 axis router from a design built in Rhino 3D. With hardware included the guitars were only 1.5" thick with matching hardware and a 25.5" scale hand-laid fretboard.
