Last Friday I decided to take a second visit to the Kinetica museum based on Ian’s description of Ray Lee’s and Jim Bond’s interesting sound experiments. Below are some photos I took, they didn’t come out that well due to the lack of light. I also took the liberty of recording some of the sound being produced by the exhibits, they came out relatively well considering I was using my phone.
01 JimBond_runningman.jpg 04-Apr-2007 02:54 72K
02 RayLee_soundmachine.jpg 04-Apr-2007 02:54 253K 03 RayLee_soundmills.jpg 04-Apr-2007 02:54 164K 04 RayLee_soundorgan.jpg 04-Apr-2007 02:54 158K 05 Recording (1).amr 04-Apr-2007 02:54 9.5K 06 Recording (2).amr 04-Apr-2007 02:54 24K 07 Recording.amr 04-Apr-2007 02:54 83K
Here is a description of the files:
01. A Jim Bond sculpture. I like this work, all the lines of the body blend into the wires holding the character up which double up as indications of movement.
02. Part of a Ray Lee sound sound piece. This machine produces Dr. Who-like sounds depending on the disruption of the field produced by the antenna. Ray Lee has built automated arms that disrupt the field. You can hear this clearly in the file ‘Recording (2).amr’.
03. This is a fantastic Ray Lee sound sculpture. Structures of various heights emitting a variety of tones from speakers mounted on rotating arms produces an eerie atmosphere in the dimly lit space.
04. This is the whole piece of which photo 02 was a part. The other part seen in this photo is an organ being played by robotic fingers controlled by electric motors and cams.
05. A short recording of a mixture of the exhibits.
06. A good recording of the piece in photo 02.
07. A fairly lengthy recording of the sound sculpture in photo 03. About two thirds of the way through I walked over to another Dr. Who-like sound machine that was on display.
This would have been a great place to take a binaural sound recorder. It would have been a really interesting experiment to record the sounds in this exhibit binaurally, then produce a 3d anaglyph animation that represents the sounds visually.
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