Substairs

Sonic Installation

Exhibited at Istanbul Biennial 2007, TR

September-November 2007



Placement
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Sound Generation
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Flyers were attached to steel stairs via tiny magnets
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Substairs:
To what extent can you line up with your ideas following your talks? Instead of being the real masters of your ideas, you are speaking of a never lasting realization of a shallow existence. While not pretending to differentiate any steps you walk, can you rationalize the stairs you step out? Can you face your weaknesses on every each stairs? Or do you feel yourselves fluctuating in a motion that is undoable?

Technical Implementation:
Sound source was captured by two wireless microphones that are attached to the exhibition hall ceiling. These microphones enables to produce a cacophony of sound materials emitted from various bienniale art exhibition objects. Transmitted into a computer, these signals were lowered down in pitch on a MaxMSP patch, and then supplied to 46 different subwoofer speakers that are mounted below entrance stairs. These entrance stairs are vibrated via subfrequency content of the cacophony.

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Press Coverage:
Radikal Newspaper