acoustic cluster

2013
mixed media
W 900 mm × L 1200 mm × H 2000 mm

This work seeks to investigate something we are largely unconscious of in our daily lives through the use of acoustic response. Sounds travel through the air as sound waves: invisible air shapes.

In the installation environment, it is comprised of a number of pipes of different lengths, each containing a microphone, and a speaker assembly generating artificial movement beneath the pipes. The distance between the speaker and microphones is expressed as microphone feedback. The pitch of the feedback response varies with the spatial properties of each pipe.

acoustic cluster seeks to make audible the normally inaudible material of space. The work employs natural space as an acoustic material representing invisible physical presence in our environment, and makes it possible to experience a series of musical works through the transformation of spatial properties and artificial movement.

organised by Tokyo Arts and Space

photo: Issei Yamagata
videography: Issei Yamagata, Mari Ohno