Procedure:
- Build hardware: find speakers, build a suspension and initiation system
- use arduino and a 3 axis accellerometer to detect the tilt and direction
of the speakers
- write software that produces sound based on the direction and tilt of
the speakers
- build electro-magnetic switches triggered by proximity sensors
- make a initiation switch (triggered also in case a pendulum would come
to a stop)
- build-in a method to make perceivable the process by which the current
state of the system came to be
pendulum
A simple gravity pendulum is a weight on the end of a rigid rod (or a
string), which, when given an initial push, will swing back and forth
under the influence of gravity over its central (lowest) point. It is
a resonant system with a single resonant frequency. the amlitude of the
sine relationship is proportional to gravity and inversly proportional
to length of the pendulum. the terrestrial effect on the pendulums makes
them useful instruments for the demonstration of the rotation of the Earth
(Fucault Pendulum) and for measuring g (pendulum's frequency will be different
on different places on Earth).
site specific
the state of the installation is a record of all the presences in the
space. It will be different for each site, due both to the slight change
in frequency that the local gravity will produce and due to different
history of each site.state of the system as record of its history
accumulation of changes creates complexity. local organization is developed.
Our traditional outside perspective has provided a view of events as being
controlled by outside conditions. One looks for the formation and decay
of intertwined sets of relationships, creating inside and outside relationships
with other things, as if separate universes of causation. One particular
reason is that natural systems and structures generally have many things
being used by many things, simultaneously acting cross linked nodes, and
we can only look at one thing at a time. The preferred starting
point for studying them (curriculum) is in-depth study of some single
natural (accumulative) process of change from several scales of description,
combined with maintaining careful distinction between what's real and
what we build and record in our images.evidence of the process
I would like the viewer to be able to recognize the idea behind my piece
from the evidence at the site. The sound is a record of history in its
accummulation of the changes over time. in that it's similar to the genetic
selection mechanism, in which the phenotype is an external expression
of the genetic changes accumulated over time. the evidence of the beginning
of this process is not easily detectable in the complex form that it takes
at the moment. Since this process is not a closed system, there is no
perceivable end to the process. In this installation I will have a light
suspended with the speaker, pointing down. the gallery floor will be covered
with a soil seeded with small-bladed grass. the light will expose only
the grass under the tragectory of the pendulum and the pattern in which
the grass will grow will be a phenotype of my system. |
