Resonance Reappearing

Published on Feb 7, 2019 Gordon Monahan

"Resonance Reappearing is a motion-activated sound sculpture. Using Max/MSP software, a continuously changing score is created that draws from a library of prerecorded sounds. These sounds are transmitted through a network of motors and wires creating a vibrating, kinetic audio system that gives physical form to sound.

Four long piano wires are suspended in the gallery, with groups of electric motors hanging on each wire. The motors are attached to the speaker outputs of audio amplifiers, which have audio soundfiles playing through them, that are then amplified through the motors and into the wires. Each wire has a contact pickup attached at each end, and these contact pickups send amplified signals into a PA system in the gallery. At the same time, there are motors attached at the end of the piano wires, that cause the wires to flex with off-center motor movements. A motion sensor triggers the system to fade in and fade out, resulting in a continuously changing flexible sound system.

The piece attempts to visualize the invisibility of sound, by deconstructing the audio system into a vibrating network of motors and wires that are set in motion by the sounds transmitted through them, thus creating a kinetic audio system that is activated by the sound waves travelling through and emanating away from themselves."

MAK NITE© - 19.04.2011 - Lemon Synthesizer

YouTube Uploaded by MAKNite on Jun 13, 2011

"MAK NITE©
19. APRIL 2011
LEMON SYNTHESIZER
Performance/Installation

Im Rahmen der MAK NITE© präsentiert Akemi Takeya ihr aktuelles Projekt "L.S. project" im Kontext eines Museums. Ursprünglich als work in progress konzipiert, hat sich das "L.S. project" aus der simplen Entdeckung entwickelt, dass eine Zitrone unter Strom als Audio-Schnittstelle funktioniert. Der „Lemon Synthesizer" basiert auf der in der Natur auftretenden elektrischen Spannung in Zitronen, die als Signal zur Manipulation von Audioprozessen genutzt wird.

Das "L.S. project" untersucht die Wechselwirkung von Sprache, Bild, Identität und Körper. Die Performance / Installation im MAK fokussiert den menschlichen Körper als Bestandteil des „I" (Ich). Dafür hat Takeya ein kompositorisches System aus 71 „Items" (Begriffen) entwickelt, das von mitwirkenden Performern umgesetzt wird. Die Performer sind dabei Spieler in der sogenannten „I-exhibition" (Ich-Ausstellung), in der die unterschiedlichen Verkörperungen von Takeyas „I" durch eine Kamera aufgezeichnet, verändert und neu arrangiert werden. Das dabei kreierte Bild ist „I = lemon" (Ich = Zitrone), das die Künstlerin als Symbol und Metapher für ihr Leben in Europa definiert hat.

Performance Akemi Takeya and Performers Concept Akemi Takeya Scenery concept Hannes Wurm Sound installation & Composition Noid Live video processing Thomas Wagensommerer Audio technical development Akemi Takeya, Noid, Gordon Monahan Visual concept Naoto lina Video object Jan Machacek Movement coaching Claudia Mader Production assistant Kanako Sako Production IMEKA

Supported by Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien (MA7), bm:ukk akemitakeya.com"

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Sauerkraut Synthesizer, Sounds and the Machines That Make Them

YouTube via gordogordo56 | June 08, 2010 |

"Gordon Monahan uses fruits, vegetables, and a jar of sauerkraut as voltage controllers for a software synthesizer built with ppooll-max/msp and an arduino interface. Performed live at the Subtle Technologies Festival, on board a cruise ship in Toronto Harbour, June 5, 2010.

The Sauerkraut Synthesizer is based on a technical prototype using lemons (The Lemon Synthesizer), developed as a collaboration between Gordon Monahan, Akemi Takeya, and Noid, in Vienna, March, 2009."

Sounds and the Machines That Make Them

gordogordo56 | August 28, 2009 |

"Installation performance by Gordon Monahan at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, presented by the DAAD Inventionen Festival, 1994"