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Dripping sounds Dripping sounds is a visual/sound installation project in which the evolving movement of drops of ink expanding into clear water determines the sound filling the space in an attempt to establish correspondences among the messages of different nature we perceive by our sense organs and to reveal the chaos surrounding us as the clumsiness to perceive the underlying order of nature. The "Dripping Machine" and the "Sound Screen" are the two apparatus the installation is comprised of. The first one, constituted by A 0,22 gallons water container, a lighting and two lenses device, a ink dripping system and a microcontrolled flushing system, is in charge of the following three tasks; the optical projection of the enlarged image of the drop branching, the drops dispensation and the water renovation cycle of the liquid container where the ink is dripped. The second one translates the moving image projected over its surface into sound through the 20 photosensitive independent modules installed in its back face. The modules, wired individually to 20 speakers encircling the screen, are distributed in an equidistant grid of five columns by four rows, each row comprises four elements connected in parallel; three individual modules and an electronic circuit that provides an exclusive sound. Having the same natural source, the five different sounds are modified in order to transform their pitch value, increasing vertically in a range from low frequency in the lower part of the screen to high in the upper one. The photocapacitor installed in each module determines the variable volume of the sound it broadcasts through the speaker. The quantity of light this device receives is inversely correspondent to the volume of the wave it emits and viceversa. Therefore the projected image of the drop, while it is growing and ascending from bottom to top (due to the image vertical flipping due to the combination of two concave lenses), activates the sensors installed over the screen and produces a sound that goes from low to high frequency values. Technical Data: -Medium: visual/sounds Installation. -Materials: Steel, Glass, Acrylic, aluminum and electronic components. -Size: Sound Screen: 51 inches diameter X 7 inches wide. Dripping Machine: 39 inches long X 70 inches height x 23 inches wide, exhibit space: 14 feet x 11.21 feet. -Date of realization: 2002-2003. -Place of realization: New York. |
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