2019.
Wood, electromagnetic pickups, copper, aluminum mesh, 4 channel audio.
A four channel interactive sound installation, The World is Transmitting explores the in-between space between our bodies and the electronic devices that surround us everyday by inviting participants to use their own handheld electronic devices and cel phones to play along with a pre-composed soundscape. Participants may play along by holding their phones or other electronic devices up to the top of one of the four stands here. Proximity to the boxes at the top, as well as using the device while it is near the boxes, will alter and change the sounds the participants can make.
A brief excerpt from the soundscape can be heard here:
Abstract for The World is Transmitting
All electronic equipment gives off its own Electromagentic Wave Field (EMF) Signature, which can be made audible to hear clicks, beeps, drones, and various sounds of electronic transmission. The World is Transmitting is an interactive sound art work that combines pre-recorded materials with the sounds of the electronics of people who enter into the space. As people listen to EMF field recordings of various city landscapes, they are invited to hold their own devices and electronic things up to amplifiers that will make their signals apparent, situating our electronic everyday into the existing work. This piece engages with borders/control through the amplification of our own electronic signatures, bringing us into dialog with the unseen world around us through sonification.
